Noun
(plural brewises)
- 1964: (...) he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater. "” Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun
Origin
Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet "˜gruel'), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod "˜sauce' (English broth).
