Middle English Dictionary Entry
bragot n.
Entry Info
| Forms | bragot n. Also braget, bracket. |
| Etymology | Wel. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A beverage made of ale and honey, bragget.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.399 : Of braget [Higd.(2): bragotte; L mulsum], meth, and ale Is grete plente in þat vale.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3261 : Hir mouth was swete as bragot or the meeth.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)46 : Bragett [vrr. bragot, braket], drynke: Mellibrodium, bragetum.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.812 : In bragot thenne, or wyne or meth, hem kepe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)817 : Spised cakes..withe bragot & methe.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)17b : Bragott: yeromellum.
- a1500 in Singer Cat.Alchem.3.1176 : To make braget..Tak iii galon of good stale ale and ther To tak a pynte of puryd hony and temper hyt.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1400-1) *Acc.R.Abbotsbury : Brakide brede fact'..mandata domini.
- (1404-5) *Acc.R.Abbotsbury : Bragetbred.
Note: New compound.
Note: New sense. (Make existing gloss sense (a).)
Note: Gloss: (b)~ bred, ?bread made with honey; ?bread made with bragget; ?bread soaked in bragget.
Note: Etymology for this entry needs revision: [Wel. bragod.]
Note: Provisional revised form section: Also bragotte, braget, braket, brakide.--notes per MLL