Broth
[brɒθ] or [brɑθ]
Definition
(noun.) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock.
(noun.) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces; 'she made gravy with a base of beef stock'.
Editor: Rodney--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
Checker: Olivier
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Soup (in which meat has been macerated).
Checked by Beth
Definition
n. an infusion or decoction of vegetable and animal substances in water.—A broth of a boy (Irish) a first-rate fellow.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Broth denotes the sincerity of friends. They will uphold you in all instances. If you need pecuniary aid it will be forthcoming. To lovers, it promises a strong and lasting attachment. To make broth, you will rule your own and others' fate.
Checker: Valerie
Examples
- A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a second spoonful. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Make jist the tallest kind o' broth and knicknacks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mutton broth, I believe, Sir Pitt, answered Lady Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yes,' said the old lady, looking up for a moment from the broth; 'that's a portrait. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I thought, if five cooks can spoil a broth, what may not five captains do with a pleasure excursion. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Capital Scotch broth, my dear, said Sir Pitt, though they call it by a French name. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Come now--for the Rector's chicken-broth on a Sunday. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Such d'licious broth and wine! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Such culture media are found in beef blood, gelatine, beef extracts, meat broth, milk, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At any rate we'll spare ourselves the nausea of stirring the old broth any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He would take his broths and medicines from scarcely any other hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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