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English
Verb
brozier (third-person singular simple present broziers, present participle broziering, simple past and past participle broziered)
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To bankrupt.
1808, Thomas Morton, The Way to Get Married: A Comedy, in Five Acts, page 9:The miserable fact is, I am completely broziered, cut down to a sixpence, and have left town.
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To steal provisions from the larder of (the school housekeeper).
1892, William Hill Tucker, Eton of Old: Or, Eighty Years Since, 1811-1822, page 82:[…] and as dinners were not always up to the mark, according to their ideas, they sometimes sought advantage from it, and took to "broziering" their Dame.
Noun
brozier (plural broziers)
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) A bankrupt person.
- (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) The school prank of stealing provisions from the housekeeper's larder.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary (spelled brosier)