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Broil

//bɹɔɪl// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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 advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer."

  2. 2
    A brawl; a rowdy disturbance. archaic

    "come to broils"

  3. 3
    cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To cook by direct, radiant heat. Canada, US, obsolete, transitive

    "To broil a pigeon. When you broil them, do them in the same manner, and take care your fire is very clear, and set your gridiron high, that they may not burn, and have a little parsley and butter in a cup. You may split them, and broil them with a little pepper and salt, and you may roast them only with a little parsley and butter in a dish."

  2. 2
    To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil. transitive
  3. 3
    cook under a broiler wordnet
  4. 4
    To expose to great heat. Canada, US, transitive
  5. 5
    To brawl. intransitive, obsolete
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  1. 6
    heat by a natural force wordnet
  2. 7
    To be exposed to great heat. Canada, US, intransitive
  3. 8
    be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs: * bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”) * usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)

Etymology 2

From Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs: * bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”) * usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)

Etymology 3

From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).

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