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brew

UK/bɹuː/ US/bɹuʊ̯/ fairly common slang uk
noun (1) verb (2)

noun

1.

drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling

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verb

1.

prepare by brewing

  • “people have been brewing beer for thousands of years”
2.

sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor

  • “the tea is brewing”

Origin

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. Cognate with 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.

Phrases

  • as you have brewed, so you must drink
  • Brew City
  • brew up
  • builder's brew
  • cold brew
  • cold brew coffee
  • craft brew
  • iron brew
  • on the brew
  • witches' brew

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