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Brewing
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verb (used with object)
1.
to make (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermenting malt and hops.
2.
to make or prepare (a beverage, as tea) by mixing, steeping, soaking, or boiling a solid in water.
3.
to concoct, mix, or cook (a beverage or food, especially one containing unmeasured or unusual ingredients): She brewed a pot of soup from the leftovers.
4.
to contrive, plan, or bring about: to brew mischief.
verb (used without object)
5.
to make a fermented alcoholic malt beverage, as beer or ale.
6.
to boil, steep, soak, or cook: Wait until the tea brews.
noun
Idiom7.
a quantity brewed in a single process.
8.
a particular brewing or variety of malt liquor.
9.
a hot beverage made by cooking a solid in water, especially tea or coffee.
10.
any concoction, especially a liquid produced by a mixture of unusual ingredients: a witches' brew.
11.
Informal.
a.
beer or ale.
b.
an individual serving of beer or ale: Let's have a few brews after the game.
12.
be brewing, to be forming or gathering; be in preparation: Trouble was brewing.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English brewen, Old English brēowan; akin to Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Old Norse brugga
before 900; Middle English brewen, Old English brēowan; akin to Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Old Norse brugga
Related forms
brew·er, noun
mis·brew, verb (used with object)
re·brew, verb
un·brewed, adjective
un·der·brew, verb (used with object)
EXPANDwell-brewed, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
4. concoct, scheme, plot, devise, hatch, cook up.
4. concoct, scheme, plot, devise, hatch, cook up.
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Word Origin & History
brew
O.E. breowan "to brew" (class II strong verb, past tense breaw, past participle browen), from P.Gmc. *breuwan "to brew" (cf. O.N. brugga, O.Fris. briuwa, M.Du. brouwen, O.H.G. briuwan, Ger. brauen "to brew"), from PIE base *bhreue- "to bubble, boil, effervesce" (cf. Skt. bhurnih "violent, passionate,"
EXPANDGk. phrear "well, spring, cistern," L. fervere "to boil, foam," Thracian Gk. brytos "fermented liquor made from barley," Rus. bruja "current," O.Ir. bruth "heat;" O.E. beorma "yeast;" O.H.G. brato "roast meat"), the original sense thus being "make a drink by boiling." Related: Brewed; brewing. The noun is c.1500, from the verb.
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Slang Dictionary
brew definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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