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Brews vs Brewis - What's the difference?

brews | brewis |

As nouns the difference between brews and brewis

is that brews is plural of lang=en while brewis is a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal.

As a verb brews

is third-person singular of brew.

brews

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (brew)

    • brewis

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
  • :* 1885': (...) an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and '''brewises , fritters and cooling marinades. — , ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Vol. 5
  • :* 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