different between broth vs skillygalee

English

Etymology

From Middle English broth, from Old English broþ (“broth”), from Proto-West Germanic *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rewh?- (“to seethe, roil, brew”). Akin to Old English breowan (“to brew”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: brôth
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b???/, enPR: br?th
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

broth (countable and uncountable, plural broths)

1. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.

   Synonyms: bouillon, liquor, pot liquor, stock

2. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• dashi
• souse
• stock

Descendants

• ? Scottish Gaelic: brot

Anagrams

• Borth, throb

Irish

Noun

broth m (genitive singular brotha)

1. Alternative form of bruth (“heat; rash, eruption; nap, pile, covering”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "broth" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• broð, broþ, brotthe, broþþe, broththe

Etymology

From Old English broþ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Noun

broth (plural brothes)

1. Water in which something (usually food) has been boiled; broth.

Descendants

• English: broth
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: brot
• Scots: broth

References

• “broth, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-09.

English

Alternative forms

• skilligalee
• skilligolee

Noun

skillygalee (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, nautical) A type of gruel made from oatmeal.
   • 2005 Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Steve Noon, Nelson's Sailors, Osprey Publishing, p24

     Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee, a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar.

2. (obsolete) A thin broth prepared by soaking hardtack in water, and frying with pork fat.
   • 2004 Brian Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg, Minnesota Historical Society Press, p200

     Skillygalee was born of left-over pork grease and crackers too tough to bite and chew.