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broziering

broziering is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about broziering

What is broziering the present participle and gerund of?
Broziering is the present participle and gerund of brozier.

Words near broziering in the dictionary

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

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