brozier

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verb

To bankrupt.

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Meanings

verbbrozier (third-person singular simple present broziers, present participle broziering, simple past and past participle broziered)

present singular third person broziers · participle present broziering · participle past broziered · past broziered

  1. UKobsoleteslangtransitiveTo bankrupt.

    The miserable fact is, I am completely broziered, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.

    1808, Thomas Morton, The Way to Get Married: A Comedy, in Five Acts, page 9
  2. UKobsoleteslangtransitiveTo steal provisions from the larder of (the school housekeeper).

    […] and as dinners were not always up to the mark, according to their ideas, they sometimes sought advantage from it, and took to "broziering" their Dame.

    1892, William Hill Tucker, Eton of Old: Or, Eighty Years Since, 1811-1822, page 82
nounbrozier (plural broziers)

plural broziers

  1. UKobsoleteslangtransitiveA bankrupt person.
  2. UKobsoleteslangtransitiveThe school prank of stealing provisions from the housekeeper's larder.
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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