or brozier. subs. (Eton College).—A boy when he had spent all his pocket-money. [BROZIER is Cheshire for a bankrupt.] BROZIERED = cleaned out; done up; ruined; bankrupt. BROZIER-MY-DAME = eating one out of house and home. At Eton, when a DAME (q.v.) keeps an unusually bad table, the boys agree together on a day, to eat, pocket, or waste everything eatable in the house. The censure is well understood, and the hint is generally effective.
1796. T. MERTON, The Way to Get Married (in Inchbald’s ‘The British Theatre,’ vol. XXVI). [The term is so used here].
1850. Notes and Queries, June 15, 44. I well remember the phrase BROZIER-MY-DAME, signifying to eat her out of house and home.
1888. REV. W. ROGERS, Reminiscences, 15. Etonians of my standing will remember John Francis Plumptre, one of the Fellows … I once behaved very shabbily to him, for I joined a conspiracy to ‘BROZIER’ him. There were ten or twelve of us [at breakfast], and we devoured everything within reach.
