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brewage

[ broo-ij ]

noun

  1. a fermented liquor brewed from malt.


brewage

/ ˈːɪ /

noun

  1. a product of brewing; brew
  2. the process of brewing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brewage1

1535–45; brew + -age; modeled on beverage
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Example Sentences

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This year’s competition will be 100 percent “sewage brewage.”

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This year's competition will be 100 percent "sewage brewage."

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My Brother-in-law, who manufactured it, deserves for such vapid cookery to be named before you without reserve, as the malt-master of this washy brewage.

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Examples of words formed in imitation of these in English itself are blockade, orangeade. -age, ending of abstract nouns, as homage; marks place where, as vicarage;—of English formation, bondage, brewage, parsonage.

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And those two heads o'er the watersheds Of the Thames and Lea do hover, Till a noxious brewage of slime and sewage Is the draught of the water-lover.

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