/brooh"is, broohz/ , n. Newfoundland.
1. hard bread soaked in water and then boiled.
2. such bread, with pieces of fish added, served as a meal.
[ 1520-30; earlier brewz, brewes, appar. b. bree broth, juice (ME bre, OE * breo, var. of briw; cf. BREI) and browes, ME broys broth, soup broez (nom.), broet (acc.), equiv. to bro ( brod BROTH) + -et -ET ]