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Broiler vs Broiled - What's the difference?

broiler | broiled |

As a noun broiler

is broiler (chicken).

As a verb broiled is

(broil).

broiler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who broils, or cooks by broiling.
  • (cookware) A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; a grill.
  • A chicken suitable for broiling.
  • (archaic) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels.
  • * Hammond
    • What doth he but turn broiler , make new libels against the church?

    Derived terms

    * broilerhouse

    broiled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (broil)

    • broil

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cook by direct, radiant heat.
  • To expose to great heat.
  • To be exposed to great heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Food prepared by broiling.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil
  • (obsolete) to brawl

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
    • So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
  • * Burke
    • I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
  • * 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
    • Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.

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