Brewとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: bro͞o, IPA: /bɹuː/, /bɹuʊ̯/
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley, Southern 米国発音) IPA: /bɹɪʊ̯/
• 韻: -uː

動詞

brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
   • 1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 11, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1942, page 113:

     Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]

2. (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
5. (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing.

   Synonyms: contrive, plot, hatch

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 106:

     Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]

6. (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]

7. (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:

     There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

   • 2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:

     Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.

   • 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC‎:

     Grant may have considered that only a performance of the very highest quality could keep him in a job - and the way his players started the game gave the 55-year-old shelter from the storm that was brewing.

8. (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 6:

     She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'

派生語

名詞

brew (plural brews)

1. The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529:

     Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.

   1. (slang) A serving of beer.

      Synonym: brewski

   2. (British, slang) A cup of tea.
      • 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:

        Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
        Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 brewe (“eyebrow”), from 古期英語 bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.

名詞

brew (plural brews)

1. (British, dialect) An overhanging hill or cliff.

アナグラム

• BWER