brew
noun
- liquid that is the result of brewing
- beer
- the process of brewing
verb
- ferment; make alcoholic beverage
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /bɹuː/ / [bɹuʊ̯] / /bɹɪʊ̯/
name
Etymology: * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Brugha (“descendant of the farmer”), from brughaire (“farmer”), from brugh (“land”) + -aire. * As a Manx surname, Anglicized from MacVriw, from breitheamh (“deemster”); see Brain. * As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Breu, Breuer.
- A surname.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.
- An overhanging hill or cliff.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
“Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]”
- To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
“Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.”
- To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
“Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]”
- To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
“I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]”
- To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
“There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,”
“Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.”
- To boil or seethe; to cook.
“She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'”