Middle English Dictionary Entry
broth n.
Entry Info
| Forms | broth n. Also broththe, broþt, brouȝt, brodie. |
| Etymology | OE broþ; also ML (from Gmc.) brodium. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Water in which meat or fish has been boiled, juice, broth; (b) in ~, served in its own juice; pot ~, broth with various added ingredients; ballok ~, flesh ~, ro ~; (c) water in which something has been boiled or steeped; (d) water in which frogs or toads have been.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1200(OE) Hrl.MQuad.(Hrl 6258B)14/5 : Haran lifer ȝesoden ys god on wine to drincanne & mid þan broðe þa eaȝen to beþienne.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10857 : On of is men..Caste broþ up a clerc.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)961 : Hit mot boþe drink and ete..Beues flesch and drinke þe broþt.
- c1330 Why werre (Auch)238 : He..ȝeveth the gode man soupe the lene broth.
- a1350 St.Alex.(1) (LdMisc 108)52/310 : Ofte-siþes broþ of ffissches & water, as he wessch here dissches, þei caste vp-on his croun.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)94 : Nym the nomblys of the venyson..and seth hem in tweye waterys; grynd pepyr, bred, and ale and temper it wyth the secunde brothe.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.65.4 : The puple..that eten souwe flesh, and cursid broth [L jus profanum] in the vesseles of hem.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)65b/b : Broþ of bestis wiþ moche grece renneþ nouȝt as þe broþ of hors & of swine.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)287/29 : Þe patient schal..drinke..good broþis maad of hennys.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)165/22 : Þei haue..non oþer potages, but þe broth of the flessch [OF bruet de la char].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)25a/b : Lefe he brotthes [*Ch.(2): broþþes].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)35a/b : Vse he..brodys [*Ch.(2): broþes] of þam, namely of gallium, ffor whi the brodie [*Ch.(2): broþ] of hem reperailleþ.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)303 : Lycure, or brothe of fysche, and oþer lyke: Liquamen.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)30 : Caste þer-to gode fatte broþe of freysshe beef.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)81/10 : Put þer-to..capouns brouȝt or hennys.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)403 : Take and fle a mole..And boyle it þanne in watyr and wyn, And þe dropyk late drynke þe broth fresche.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.9 : Take hennes and fresshe porke..Sethe hom togedur..Take hem up, pyke out þe bonys..Cast it agayne..In to þe brothe.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)789/23 : Hoc brodium, Anglice, a brothe.
b
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.16 : Roo broth. Take the lire of the Deer oþer of the Roo; parboile it on smale peces.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.57 : Take Pork, and rost it tyl the blode be tryed out & þe broth; take crustes of brede and bray hem in a morter, and drawe hem..with þe broth; þenne take oynons..and do to the broth; þanne take pork, and leshe it clene..and cast it into þe pot broth.
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Judg.6.19 : Gedeon..sethide a kydde..and, the flesh broththe puttynge in to the pot, he took alle thingis vndur the ook.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)662/6 : Caro assota: rost flesche. Caro in brodio: in broth.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)333 : The bores hede schall be broghte..Buk-tayles full brode in brothes there be-syde.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)86 : Pik and eles in ballok brothe that muste our dame haue, or els she will be wrothe. To mak eles and pikes in ballok brothe, tak [etc.].
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)216a/a : Þe broþ þerof [of agnus castus] helpeþ aȝeins coolde and white dropesye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)234b/b : Poudre of þis tree [Mirtus] heliþ woundes..broþ þer of helpeþ aȝens þe yuel allopucia.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.28 : Take brede and frye hit..With brothe of venegur drawȝe hit withalle.
- a1500 Herkyn to my tale (Adv 19.3.1)81 : Mylnestons in mortrews have I sene bot fewe; Gryndylstons in grwell with tho blw brothes.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)65a : Washe them with his owne broth till whit he become.
d
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)33 : In no wyse stryve wyth no frosses, Ne defoule the not in there brothes.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)34 : They abyde stylle in the broththe.