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Brose

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

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."

Noun

1
Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk. Scotland, uncountable, usually
"I had not far to seek for him: he stood waiting in the passage, for the cooling of his brose."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

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