brosierbroziern.
/ˈbrəʊzɪə//ˈbrəʊʒ(ɪ)ə/ 1. dialect. A bankrupt.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > one who is insolvent
bankrupt?1563
bare-man1581
Ludgatian1600
non-solvent1647
insolvent1725
fraudulent1796
brosier1826
1826 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire (ed. 2) Brosier, a bankrupt. It is often used by boys at play, when one of them has nothing further to stake.
2. Eton College slang. A boy who has spent all his pocket-money.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > one who spends
spender1393
disburser1611
expender1804
brosier1850
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 44/1 A boy at Eton was a ‘brosier’, when he had spent all his pocket-money.
3. The custom of brosiering: see brosier v. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating heartily or greedily
mouching1607
engorgement1611
engorging1611
demolition1722
tucking in1810
brosier1907
1907 Daily Chron. 17 Dec. 3/4 You have heard of the Eton custom of a ‘brozier’? The attempt to eat out of house and home.
1926 Glasgow Herald 27 Dec. 6 It was reserved for Eton..to invent the..‘brozier’, where eating even to beyond repletion is indulged in to gratify a sense of injury.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
brosierbrozierv.
/ˈbrəʊzɪə//ˈbrəʊʒ(ɪ)ə/ 1. passive. To be bankrupt. dialect.
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1796 T. Morton Way to get Married i. i. 4 I am completely brozier'd, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.
2. transitive. In Eton College phraseology: to attempt to exhaust the supply of food at a meal, as an expression of dissatisfaction with the fare provided; esp. in the phrase to brosier my dame or my tutor.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 2 44/1 I well remember the phrase, ‘brozier-my-dame’, signifying to ‘eat her out of house and home’.
1888 W. Rogers Reminisc. 15 I joined a conspiracy to ‘brozier’ him. There were ten or twelve of us [at breakfast], and we devoured everything within reach.
1899 C. K. Paul Memories 111 If a tutor or a dame was suspected of being niggardly, it was determined to ‘brosier’ him or her.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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