bragget

• bracket, brackett, bragawd, braggett, braggot, bragot

From Middle English bragot, braket, from Middle Welsh bragawt, bragaut, bragot, from brag (“malt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹæɡɪt/

bragget (uncountable)

1. (historical) A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.

   Synonym: Welsh ale

   • 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:

     You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men,
     And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale,
     With the brown bowl, and charg'd in bragget stale […]

   • 2011, Sara Elin Roberts, transl., “Text and Translation”, in Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B (Medieval Law and Its Practice; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 121:

     The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year.

• mead (“alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water”)