Noun: broil
| Singular | broil |
| Plural | broils |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Concerning a Little Rehearsal in Captain Cluffe’s Lodging, and a Certain Confidence between Dr. Sturk and Mr. Dangerfield”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 86:]
Nouns inflected like broil
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 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:
2. * bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
3. * usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”) See: Latin Nouns '
ustulō'.