单词 | browster |
释义 | browstern. Now Scottish and English regional (northern). A person who brews or sells beer; a brewer. Cf. brewster n.1 2.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > brewer browster1283 brewera1300 brewster1377 beer-brewer1465 brachetour1598 1283 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Eng. Surnames (1991) 63/2 Geoffrey Brouster. 1327 Subsidy Roll, Leicestershire in Associated Archit. Soc. Rep. & Papers (1888) 19 212 Cecilia la Broustere. 1332 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 78 Adam le Brouster'. 1377–84 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1912) I. 252/1 Juxta terram Johannis dicti Brouster. c1400 Femina (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 39 (MED) Þe browestere. a1449 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 779 Bakerys, browsterys, vyntenerys, with fressh lycour. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 123 Boutyng þe browstere. 1530 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 19 Thir ar the namis of the broustaris..quhilk has oblist thame till keip the statutis. c1550 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 15 Brouster, for his fie, five pundis. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Svijv Ane Browster, quhilk can brew moste hoilsum aill. 1655 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 286 The Session ordaines that no taverners nor brousters receive honest mens servandes to drink in their houses efter sax houris at night. 1663 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 77 The testificate..proceeds from mean persons, two of them being browsters. ?1700 P. Anderson Copie Barons Court 14 The Stewart, Cook, and Browster now are one. 1766 A. Nicol Poems Several Subj. 95 Our brousters made good nappie ale. ?1837 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 5. 149 The browster gied us a' a gliff Wi' his barley bree. 1903 J. Lumsden Toorle 236 The Mill slack noo—nane e'er beheld her, But browsters', baxters' ‘orders’ swall'd her Till like to burst! ?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries ii. vi. 159 The'r nae brousters at hame, oniemair. Compounds browster wife n. now historical a woman who brews or sells beer; a landlady of a public house or tavern. ΚΠ 1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 99 How the Brouster Wife had crav'd him. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 123 Browster wives an' whiskie stills. 1924 J. C. Austin in W. Cumming Swatches o' Hamespun 79 There's Mergit Fyfe, the browster wife, Wha deals in booze an' ballants. 2008 M. Pittock Sc. & Irish Romanticism ii. 48 Pitcairne's Latin elegy on the browster wife who ran the Greppa. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1283 |
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