Brose
name, noun ·1 syllable ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"Brose recalled treating a woman with a rare type of cancer called sarcoma. When they met, the patient was in a wheelchair and on oxygen. Brose said that three years after treatment, the woman is hiking with her kids."
Etymology
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.
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