/bɹɔɪl/, /bɹaɪl/
OriginFrom Middle English broylen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
* bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *brōjan (“to burn, scald”)
* usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustulō (“to scorch”)
- Canada, US, obsolete, transitiveTo cook by direct, radiant heat.
“To broil a pigeon. When you broil them, do them in the same manner, and take care your fire is very clear, and set your gridiron high, that they may not burn, and have a little parsley and butter in a”
“To broil Red Mullet. Neither seale nor gut your mullet, wipe them very clean in a cloth, butter half a sheet of writing paper for each fish, put them in, and fasten it all round; have a very clear fir”
“To broil fish. To broil trout in a third way. When they are cleaned and washed, dry them well in a napkin. Then bind them about with packthread, sprinkle them with melted butter and salt, and broil th”
- Canada, US, transitiveTo expose to great heat.
- Canada, US, intransitiveTo be exposed to great heat.
- transitiveTo cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
- intransitive, obsoleteTo brawl.
- Food prepared by broiling.
“Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some o”
- archaicA brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
“come to broils”
“But to give the faireſt Play to every ſide of the Queſtion, I vvill own that there is a Haughtineſs, and Fierceneſs in human Nature, vvhich vvill cauſe innumerable Broils, place Men in vvhat State you”
“"Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters”
Formsbroils(present, singular, third-person) · broiling(participle, present) · broiled(participle, past) · broiled(past) · broils(plural) · broyl(alternative)