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zythepsary

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A brewery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, rare

Examples

  • 1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144, But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer [...]

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History

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).