Noun: brew
Sample Sentences
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Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth. [1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529:]
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Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill [1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:]
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Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
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Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on. [2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:]
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In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 189:]
Nouns inflected like brew
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
2. Cognate with
3. Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley. See: Old English Nouns '
brēowan', Swedish Nouns '
brygga', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
brygge', Ancient Greek Nouns '
φρέαρ', English Nouns '
barley'.
Verbs referencing "brew"
English Nouns
barley.