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brosier

brosier is the alternative form of brozier.

Meaning of brozier

Verb

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

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To 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. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To 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

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Forms of brosier

Verb
third-person singular presentbrosiers
present participlebrosiering
past participlebrosiered
pastbrosiered
Noun
pluralbrosiers

Questions about brosier

What is brosier the alternative form of?
Brosier is the alternative form of brozier.

Words near brosier in the dictionary

  1. Brosettes
  2. brosey
  3. BroShep
  4. broship
  5. broships
  6. brosier
  7. brosiered
  8. brosiering
  9. brosiers
  10. brosif
  11. brosifs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brosier (page history and authors); brozier (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.

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