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English

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.

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.

Pronunciation

Verb

brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
  2. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
  3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
  5. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.
    Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch
  6. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
  7. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
      There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
    • 2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
      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.
    • 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC‎:
      Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.
  8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 6:
      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.'
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Noun

brew (plural brews)

  2. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529:
      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.
    1. (slang) A serving of beer.
      Synonym: brewski
      • 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
        Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
    2. (British, slang) A cup of tea.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.

Noun

brew (plural brews)

  1. (British, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.
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Cornish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bruseti, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”). Cognate with Welsh briw.

Noun

brew m (plural brewyon)

  1. bruise

Adjective

brew

  1. bruised
  2. broken
  3. (baking) short

Derived terms

  • brewell (“crusher”)
  • brewell avalow dor (“potato masher”)
  • brewgik (“minced meat”)
  • brewi (“to bruise, to crush, to mash, to crumble”)
  • brewliv (“millstone”)
  • brewyon (“crumbs”)
  • krusten vrew (“shortcrust”)
  • past brew (“shortcrust pastry”)
  • tesen vrew (“shortbread”)

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Middle English

Verb

brew

  1. alternative form of brewen

Old Polish

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs
    Proto-Balto-Slavic *brū́ˀs
    Proto-Slavic *bry
    Old Polish brew

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bry. First attested in the 15th century

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /brɛfʲ/
    • IPA(key): (15th CE) /brɛfʲ/

    Noun

    brew f

    1. (attested in Greater Poland) eyebrow; brow
      • 1874-1891 [XV p. pr.], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎, , , volume XVI, page 329:
        Vyelky (pro wyelkych?) brvy ciliosus erat
        [Wielkich brwi ciliosus erat]
      • 1874-1891 [XV p. pr.], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎, , , volume XVI, page 340:
        Czarnobrva była my myła, brvy, czolo
        [czarnobrwa byla my myla, brwi, czolo]
      • 1874-1891 [XV p. pr.], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎, , , volume XVI, page 344:
        Brvy supercilia
        [brwi supercilia]
      • 1915 [XV ex.], Jan Łoś, editor, Przegląd językowych zabytków staropolskich do r. 1543‎, page 536:
        Ibi fuerunt multi homines nigri diuersimode ardentes, aly ad cingula po pasz,... aly ad oculos po oczy, aly po brwy
        [Ibi fuerunt multi homines nigri diuersimode ardentes, aly ad cingula po pas,... aly ad oculos po oczy, aly po brwi]
      • 1915 [XV ex.], Jan Łoś, editor, Przegląd językowych zabytków staropolskich do r. 1543‎, page 536:
        Po brwy pro supercilia
        [Po brwi pro supercilia]
      • 1908 [c. 1500], Bolesław Erzepki, editor, Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego. I. Glosy polskie wpisane do łacińsko-niemieckiego słownika drukowanego w roku 1490‎, Lubiń, page 5:
        Brew cilium, brew supercilium, brwy supercilia
        [Brew cilium, brew supercilium, brwy supercilia]
      • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 22r:
        Supercilia brwy
        [Supercilia brwi]
      • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 27r:
        Cilium augbran sunt crines circa oculos brew
        [Cilium augbran sunt crines circa oculos brew]
      • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 133v:
        Supercilium eyn oberst augbrae an dem aug brew
        [Supercilium eyn oberst augbrae an dem aug brew]
      • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎, page 149:
        O brwiach Jezusowych. Brwi miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)
        [O brwiach Jezusowych. Brwi miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)]

    Descendants

    • Polish: brew
    • Silesian: brew, brwia

    References

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    Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs
      Proto-Balto-Slavic *brū́ˀs
      Proto-Slavic *bry
      Old Polish brew
      Polish brew

      Inherited from Old Polish brew.

      Pronunciation

       
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      • Rhymes: -ɛf
      • Syllabification: brew

      Noun

      brew f

      1. eyebrow; brow (hair, fur, or feathers that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket)
        1. (cosmetics) eyebrow; brow (imitation of such hair)
        2. (Middle Polish) synonym of wierzch / szczyt
      2. (Middle Polish) synonym of powieka
        1. (Middle Polish) synonym of rzęsa

      Declension

      Declension of brew
      More information singular, plural ...

      Derived terms

      adjectives
      nouns
      • regulacja brwi
      verbs
      • wyregulować brwi pf, regulować brwi impf

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      Silesian

      Alternative forms

      • brwia

      Etymology

        Etymology tree
        Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs
        Proto-Balto-Slavic *brū́ˀs
        Proto-Slavic *bry
        Old Polish brew
        Silesian brew

        Inherited from Old Polish brew.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /ˈbrɛf/
        • Rhymes: -ɛf
        • Syllabification: brew

        Noun

        brew f

        1. eyebrow; brow (hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket)

        Further reading

        • brew in silling.org
        • Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022), “brew”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 66
        • Aleksandra Wencel (2023), “brew”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 77
        • Michał Przywara (c. 1900), “brew”, in Narzecza śląskie napisał ks. Michał Przywara. C. Słownik‎
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