broil

名词 n. 动词 v.
/bɹɔɪl/    /bɹɔɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer.
  2. A brawl; a rowdy disturbance. archaic
    — come to broils
动词 v.
  1. To cook by direct, radiant heat. Canada,US,obsolete,transitive
    — 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 cup. You may split them, and broil them with a little pepper and salt, and you may roast them only with a little parsley and butter in a dish.
  2. To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil. transitive
  3. To expose to great heat. Canada,US,transitive
  4. To brawl. intransitive,obsolete
  5. To be exposed to great heat. Canada,US,intransitive

词形变化

broils present,singular,third-person broiling participle,present broiled participle,past broiled past broils plural broils present,singular,third-person broiling participle,present broiled participle,past broiled past broyl alternative broils plural broyl alternative

词源

词源 1
From 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”)
词源 2
From Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodiculāre (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”).
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