Word.ws English Dictionary

broils

broils is the plural of broil.

broils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of broil.

Meaning of broil

Noun (1)

broil (plural broils)

  1. Food prepared by broiling.
    • Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the...1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s Lodging, and a Certain Confidence between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield”, in The House by the Church-yard. […]...

Noun (2)

broil (plural broils)

  1. (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
    • come to broils
    Synonyms:
    skirmish

See all 7 meanings of broil

Phrases with broils

Questions about broils

What is broils the plural of?
Broils is the plural of broil.

Words near broils in the dictionary

  1. broileth
  2. broiling
  3. broiling up
  4. broilingly
  5. broilings
  6. broils
  7. broils up
  8. broilsome
  9. broing down
  10. broing out
  11. Broinowski

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: broils (page history and authors); broil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “broils.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/broils. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.