Meanings
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- historicaluncountableA liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.
The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year.
2011, Sara Elin Roberts, transl., “Text and Translation”, in Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B (Medieval Law and Its Practice; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 1211 more example
You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men, And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale, With the brown bowl, and charg'd in bragget stale […]
1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLCSynonyms: Welsh ale
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.
Origin
- Middle Welshbragawt
- Middle Englishbragot
- Englishbragget
From Middle English bragot, braket, from Middle Welsh bragawt, bragaut, bragot, from brag (“malt”).
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bragget. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bragget
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