broad-cooper
A person employed by brewers to negotiate with publicans.
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broad-faking
Playing at cards. Generally used to denote "work" of the three-card and kindred descriptions.
broad-fencer
A "k’rect card" seller at races.
broaden someone's horizons
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
broads
Cards. BROADSMAN, a card-sharper. See BROAD-FAKING.
broadway swell
A New York term for a great dandy, Broadway being the principal promenade in the "Empire City."
broady
Broadcloth.
broady
Cloth. Evidently a corruption of broadcloth. BROADY workers are men who go round selling vile shoddy stuff under the pretence that it is excellent material, which has been "got on the cross," i.e. stolen.
broccoli
Marijuana.
broganier
One who has a strong Irish pronunciation or accent.
brogue
A particular kind of shoe without a heel, worn in Ireland, and figuratively used to signify the Irish accent.
broken heart
Overwhelming sadness, typically due to a romantic separation
broken hearted
Overwhelmed with sorrow, typically due to a romantic separation
broken home
A family unit that has been disrupted by divorce or separation.
broken man
A person severely weakened or demoralized
Broken Music
In Elizabethan England this term meant (a) part, or concerted music ie music performed on instruments of different classes, such as the] "consorts" given in Morley's Consort Lessons (1599), which are written for the treble lute, cithern, pandora, fi.
broken record
Repeating something many times in a tedious way
broken reed
A person or thing that is unreliable or provides no support.
broken vessel
A person who is no longer useful or effective
brolly
An umbrella. Term used at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
brome’s
(Rich.) Joviall Crew; or, The Merry Beggars. Presented in a Comedie at the Cockpit, in Drury Lane, in the Year (4to) 1652.
bronx cheer
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
broomstick
A control stick of an airplane or other vehicle.
brosier
A bankrupt.—Cheshire. BROSIER-MY-DAME, school term, implying a clearing of the housekeeper’s larder of provisions, in revenge for stinginess.—Eton.
broth of a boy
An Irish term for a jolly good fellow.
brother and sister
a male and female sibling
Brother Chip
Properly a brother carpen- ter, but in its extended meaning applied to anyone of the same vocation as oneself.
Brother Jonathan
When Washington was in want of ammunition, he called a council of officers, but no practical suggestion could be offered.
brother of the blade
A soldier BUSKIN. A player. BUNG. A brewer QUILL. An author. STRING. A fiddler. WHIP. A coachman.
brother starling
One who lies with the same woman, that is, builds in the same nest.
brother-chip
Originally fellow carpenter. Almost general now as brother tradesman of any kind. Also, BROTHER-WHIP, a fellow coachman; and BROTHER-BLADE, of the same occupation or calling—originally a fellow-soldier.
brother-smut
A term of familiarity. "Ditto, BROTHER SMUT," tu quoque.
brotherman
A man.
brought up on the bottle
Said of a baby which is artificially fed instead of being nursed at the breast.
broughtonian
A boxer: a disciple of Broughton, who was a beef-eater, and once the best boxer of his day.
brown
A halfpenny.—See BLUNT.
brown and serve
partially cooked, to be finished by the user
brown as a berry
Very brown.
brown bag
to eat lunch at work
brown bess
A soldier's firelock. To hug brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier.
Brown Bess
A familiar name for the old flint-lock musket formerly in use in the
Brown Bill
A kind of halbert used by English foot-soldiers before muskets were employed. They were staff weapons, with heads like bill-hooks but furnished with spikes at the top and back. The brown probably refers to the rusty condition in which they were kept; though, on the other hand, it may stand for burnished (Dut. brun, shining), as in the old phrases "my bonnie brown sword," "brown as glass," etc.
Brown Bomber
Joe Louis (b. 1914), un- defeated heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 until his retirement in 1949.
brown bread
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
brown eye
the anus
brown george
An ammunition loaf, A wig without powder; similar to the undress wig worn by his majesty.
brown noser
Someone who tries to win favor by flattering people or behaving in a way that is not genuine
brown power
political power or influence held by Hispanic or Latino people
brown study
a state of deep thought or daydreaming
brown study
Absence of mind; apparent thought, but real vacuity. The corresponding French expression explains it — sombre reverie. Sombre and brun both mean sad, melancholy, gloomy, dull.
brown sugar
Heroin.
brown talk
Conversation of an exceedingly proper character, Quakerish. Compare BLUE.
brown thumb
Having a lack of ability to care for plants
brown to
To understand, to comprehend.
browned off
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
browned off
This is a slang phrase that came into general use during World War II, meaning "fed up," bored or disillusioned. Various derivations of the phrase have been suggested, but none of them appears satis- factory.
browneye
The anus.
brownian motion
Random and unpredictable movement or change
brownie point
an advantage or credit gained by doing something good
brown’s
(Rev. Hugh Stowell) Lecture on Manliness, 12mo. 1857.
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