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- verb Alternative form of
broddle .
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Examples
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Bakeñ heryng {e}, dressid & diȝt w {i} t {h} white sugur {e}; þe white heryng {e} by þe bak a brode ye splat hym̅ sur {e}, bothe rough {e} & boon {us}/voyded/þeñ may your {e} lorde endur {e} 552 to ete merily w {i} t {h} mustard þ {a} t tyme to his plesur {e}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Haut brode - 12e, Spartiates (whatever it means) - 19e, odd legs - priceless (or surgery-worth).
New Look: Show A Little Leg Cosmo7 2009
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And hit lyfte vp þe yȝe-lyddez and loked ful brode
Archive 2009-06-01 Miglior acque 2009
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And hit lyfte vp þe yȝe-lyddez and loked ful brode
Getting Medieval on the BBC Miglior acque 2009
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Thus, my sholdres grewe brode and myn litel legges tapered to the syze of John Goweres self-confidence.
Crackpot Medieval "Facts" Richard Nokes 2006
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On mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he settez wyth wynne
I is cuter… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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In þe brode shelle putt youre stuff / but furst haue a sight
Introducing Triple-Yogh Days: Complete with a Random Bullets of Catch-up Preamble Heo 2008
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As for the issue of moneye, if chaunce shal haue yt that we meet at a conferaunce (thou kan recognise me by myn brode sholdres, litel woolen hatte, and joviale expressioun), ich wille buye thee a drynke or thre.
Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck Richard Nokes 2006
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To enioyne all Priestes to shaue their heades in the croune, like a circle of iiij. fingres brode, after the maner of the Nazareis.
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The Arabiens beyng a greate people, and dwellyng very wide and brode: are in their liuyng very diuers, and as sondrie in religion.
fbharjo commented on the word brode
Used to describe the water filled areas as the result of the removal of vast quantities of peat near Norwich
November 28, 2013
madmouth commented on the word brode
It has that goopy autological mouthfeel
November 29, 2013
bilby commented on the word brode
I much prefer broddle.
November 29, 2013