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brozier

brozier verb: to bankrupt.

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

Noun

brozier (plural broziers)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) A bankrupt person.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) The school prank of stealing provisions from the housekeeper's larder.

Forms of brozier

Verb
third-person singular presentbroziers
present participlebroziering
past participlebroziered
pastbroziered
Noun
pluralbroziers

Questions about brozier

What does brozier mean?
Brozier means to bankrupt.
What part of speech is brozier?
Brozier can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of brozier?
The past tense of brozier is broziered.

Words near brozier in the dictionary

  1. Broz
  2. broze
  3. Brozek
  4. Brozeks
  5. brozes
  6. brozier
  7. broziered
  8. broziering
  9. broziers
  10. Broșteni
  11. BRP

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