brewis

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹuːɪs/

Noun

brewis (plural brewises)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5

     […] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.

   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:

     […] he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater.

Derived terms

• fish and brewis