different between supper vs broth

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sopere, from Old French soper, from sope (“soup”). Compare French souper.

Noun

supper (countable and uncountable, plural suppers)

1. Food consumed before going to bed.
2. Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
3. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, slang) A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.

   a fish supper; a pizza supper

Synonyms

• (meal): dinner; see also Thesaurus:meal

Derived terms

• kitchen supper
• Last Supper
• Lord's Supper
• lupper
• brupper

Related terms

• soup

Translations

Verb

supper (third-person singular simple present suppers, present participle suppering, simple past and past participle suppered)

1. To consume a snack before retiring.
2. To eat dinner (see above).

Translations

Etymology 2

sup +? -er

Noun

supper (plural suppers)

1. A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).

Translations

Anagrams

• Ruppes, uppers

Danish

Noun

supper c

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

supper m or f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

supper f

1. indefinite plural of suppe

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.