| 释义 |
▪ I. brosier, brozier, v.|ˈbrəʊzɪə(r), ˈbrəʊʒ(ɪ)ə(r)|
[Etym. unknown.]
1. pass. To be bankrupt. dial.
1796T. Morton Way to get Married i. i, I am completely brozier'd, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.
2. trans. In Eton College phraseology: to attempt to exhaust the supply of food at a meal, as an expression of dissatisfaction with the fare provided; esp. in the phrase to brosier my dame or brosier my tutor.
1850N. & Q. 1st Ser. II. 44/1, I well remember the phrase, ‘brozier-my-dame’, signifying to ‘eat her out of house and home’. 1888W. Rogers Remin. 15, I joined a conspiracy to ‘brozier’ him. There were ten or twelve of us [at breakfast], and we devoured everything within reach. 1899C. K. Paul Mem, 111, If a tutor or a dame was suspected of being niggardly, it was determined to ‘brosier’ him or her.
▪ II. brosier, brozier, n.|ˈbrəʊzɪə(r), ˈbrəʊʒ(ɪ)ə(r)|
[Cf. prec.]
a. A bankrupt. dial.
b. A boy who has spent all his pocket-money. Eton slang.
c. The custom of brosiering: see brosier v. 2.
1826Wilbraham Gloss. Cheshire (ed. 2), Brosier, a bankrupt. It is often used by boys at play, when one of them has nothing further to stake. 1850N. & Q. 1st Ser. II. 44/1 A boy at Eton was a ‘brosier’, when he had spent all his pocket-money. 1907Daily Chron. 17 Dec. 3/4 You have heard of the Eton custom of a ‘brozier’? The attempt to eat out of house and home. 1926Glasgow Herald 27 Dec. 6 It was reserved for Eton..to invent the..‘brozier’, where eating even to beyond repletion is indulged in to gratify a sense of injury. |