brozier

English

Verb

brozier (third-person singular simple present broziers, present participle broziering, simple past and past participle broziered)

  1. (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.
  2. (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)

  1. (transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) A bankrupt person.
  2. (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)
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