brew

Definition

To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.

Etymology

From Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn. Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley.

Example Sentences

• "Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]"
• "Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely."
• "Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]"