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brose

[ brohz ]

noun

, Scot.
  1. a porridge made by stirring boiling liquid into oatmeal or other meal.


brose

/ brəʊz /

noun

  1. oatmeal or pease porridge, sometimes with butter or fat added See also Atholl brose
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • brosy adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brose1

1400–50; late Middle English broys < Old French broez; brewis
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brose1

C13 broys , from Old French broez , from breu broth, of Germanic origin
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Example Sentences

Gin I had a bonny wee dog I'd gie 'im ma ain brose, an' cuddle 'im, an' he couldna gang awa'.

But Brose's fell as falls the barometer in the centre of a cyclone.

Mr. Brose saw him, and was on his tracks like a fish-hawk on a herring-gull.

We can dispense with Mr. Potts's services for the time, eh, Mr. Brose?

Even as I stood there, the old witch bent down and laid the dish before the wolf that he might finish the brose.

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