brewis

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/bɹuːɪs/

noun

a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal

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Meanings

nounbrewis (countable and uncountable, plural brewises)

plural brewises

  1. countabledialectalobsoleteuncountablea kind of broth thickened with bread or meal

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

    1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5
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    […] 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.

    1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun

Origin

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).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with brewis

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Cite this entry
APA

brewis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewis

MLA

“brewis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewis. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brewis,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewis.

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