brewis

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brewis

  • /bɹuːɪs/

Rhymes with -uːɪs

Where it comes from

From Old French broez, brouez, brouets, plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).

noun brewises

  1. countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal […] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.

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@misc{brewis_2026,
  title = {brewis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brewis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}