Broshering

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:22 PM +0100 3/28/11, Michael Quinion wrote:
>Can anybody help with the word "broshering"? It turned up in one of the
>late Ivor Brown's books on language. I can find it in only one other
>place, Reminiscences of Eton by the Reverend Charles Allix Wilkinson of
>1888, "'Appius', so-called, had been the head of a conspiracy for
>'broshering' their dame, that was, eating her out of house and home -
>eating and drinking everything that was on the table, and what was sent up
>afterwards, and still always asking for more."
>
Not to be confused with "bro-sharing" a dame, which would be quite
another thing.

LH

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