Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete Middle English form of
bruise . - noun A Scotch dish, made by pouring boiling water, boiling milk, the liquid in which meat has been boiled, or the like, on oatmeal, barley-meal, or other meal, and immediately mixing the ingredients by stirring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Pottage made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef
brose , waterbrose , etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used.
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- noun Scotland
Oatmeal mixed withboiling water .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Potatoes at twelve o'clock -- seldom "brose" nowadays -- are the staple dinner dish, and the tinned meats have become very popular.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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Potatoes at twelve o'clock -- seldom "brose" nowadays -- are the staple dinner dish, and the tinned meats have become very popular.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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Coach Am! brose wi ll go upon to rely upon his immature QB, Athens, as great as his invulnerability to lift this group the rest of the way.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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February 16, 2010 10: 15 PM richie said ... those were the red Sonia swords i should know i was conan ... richie brose great memories
Stumbling Upon Some Real Live Conan the Barbarian Movie Props! Reis O'Brien 2010
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Coach Am! brose wi ll go upon to rely upon his immature QB, Athens, as great as his invulnerability to lift this group the rest of the way.
The CAA Today: Road Warriors admin 2009
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On one occasion, I had left the table to fetch a brose pudding for dessert, and returned to find both of them sound asleep, and Jenny laughing quietly to herself amid the remains of supper.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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While you brose their selection of great products click on the link to VetUK, they offer products such as Frontline flee protection at lower prices than from your vet.
Archive 2008-02-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Inver, and, to say truth, spent a night with him over pancakes and Athole brose; and I never expected to hear his match again in my lifetime.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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The cry of Stena chills the vitals of slumbring off the motther has been pleased into the harms of old salaciters, meassurers soon and soon, but the voice of Alina gladdens the cockly-hearted dreamerish for that magic moning with its ching chang chap sugay kaow laow milkee muchee bringing becker-brose, the brew with the foochoor in it.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Originally a monastery, and then a private residence and then the Institute, Na Bolom was recently run by a Mexican Trust under the direction of an ex-Governor of Chiapas, referred to as El Jefe, a rigid man of military bearing, he could fix you with his piercing cold glacier-blue eyes, his gray hair bristled, cut en brose.
garyth123 commented on the word brose
please, no nods, props, or shout outs to Dr J:)
December 28, 2008
sarra commented on the word brose
see athole brose for a bit of discussion
December 29, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word brose
Usage on hough.
January 14, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word brose
(noun) - (1) A dish made by pouring boiling water or milk on oatmeal seasoned with salt and butter. Hence brose-meal, brose-time, etc. Modern Scottish form of earlier browis, Old French broez. Often treated as a plural, like porridge, broth, ect. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1888 (2) The dish is dominated from the nature of the liquid, as water-brose, kale-brose. So late as 1530, brewes was used in this sense by English writers. --John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808
January 27, 2018