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brose

brose noun: oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.

Noun

brose (usually uncountable, plural broses)

  1. (Scotland, usually) Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.
    • I had not far to seek for him: he stood waiting in the passage, for the cooling of his brose.1836 Joanna Baillie Witchcraft, Act 1

Proper noun capitalized: Brose

Brose

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose.
    • Take poor Brose, who was actually christened Ambrose. A thing like that could simply warp a person's life, if he wasn't a good enough fighter to make the other kids start calling him by some nickname at an early age.1951, Rosamond Du Jardin, Class Ring, Lippincott, page 140

Forms of brose

pluralbroses

Origin of brose

From the Doric dialect of North East Scotland, from earlier browes, from Old French broez, nominative of broet (“stew, soup made from meat broth”) (French brouet) diminutive of breu, from Medieval Latin brodium, from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”). See broth.

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Words formed from brose

Phrases with brose

Questions about brose

What does brose mean?
Brose means oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.
What part of speech is brose?
Brose can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of brose?
The plural of brose is broses.

Words near brose in the dictionary

  1. Brosches
  2. broscience
  3. broscientist
  4. broscientists
  5. broscine
  6. brose
  7. brosef
  8. brosefine
  9. brosefs
  10. Broseley
  11. Broseleys

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