poteen

poteen (countable and uncountable, plural poteens)

From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

der

The Irish peasantry practice the distillation of that illicit spirituous liquor, so well known by the name of poteen whiskey, with a most unaccountable infatuation.

1835 September 13, J. L. L., “The Poteen Still. A Tale Founded on Fact.”, in Philip Dixon Hardy, editor, The Dublin Penny Journal, volume III, number 115, Dublin: Printed and published by P. D. Hardy, 3, Cecilia Street, →OCLC, page 85, column 1:

[A] detachment, consisting of a subaltern’s party, was on its road to Head Quarters, from a still hunting in the mountains, or hostile excursion after contrabandists, or distillers of that delicious fluid, Potheen whiskey, […] It is related that when he [George IV of the United Kingdom] had drained the first glass that was presented to him, he declared that he could now understand why the Irish peasantry were willing to risk life and liberty in its illegal production—it was the real elixir vitæ—the only stuff fit to fuddle a prince with—royal in its flavor, royal in its odor, and super-royal in its effects! That Poteen!

1843 May 6, “a New Orleans Irishman”, “An Irish Race Course”, in Brother Jonathan, volume V, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Wilson & Company, publishers; office 162 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 26, column 1:

Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)

20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, page 243

“Make haste now and go up and tell your mother to hide the poteen”—his mother used to sell poteen—“for I’m after seeing the biggest party of peelers and yeomanry passing by on the rocks was ever seen on the island.”

1907, J[ohn] M[illington] Synge, “Part IV”, in The Aran Islands, Dublin: Maunsel & Co., Ltd; London: Elkin Mathews, →OCLC, page 152:

Past the split tree three-quarters of the way in, where a man has tucked a small bottle of Rot under the bark for his workmate to collect as he passes. Such narcotics and poteens are illegal in the encampment, and cannot be risked passing within the huts.

2002, Sarah Hall, Haweswater, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; paperback edition, London: Faber and Faber, 2003, →ISBN, page 240:

He began to rove the country at night, trudging out to shebeens or crossroads dances, to the ceilidhs and poteen sessions that sometimes followed Fair Days in the small towns of Connemara.

2002, Joseph O'Connor, “The Ballad-maker”, in Star of the Sea: Farewell to Old Ireland, London: Secker & Warburg, →ISBN; Star of the Sea (Harvest Book), 1st U.S. edition, Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003, →ISBN, page 88:

(Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.

Kildrumferton … Pop. 9,687 […] There are nine licensed public houses; poteens many more. Illicit distillation prevails to a very great extent, the district being rarely visited by the revenue police, not indeed for years past; the presence of the excise officer in a neighbouring town is the only check.

1836, “Supplement to Appendix (E.): Answers to Questions Circulated by the Commissioners Relative to the Condition of Agricultural Labourers in Ireland”, in Poor Inquiry (Ireland). Appendix (E.) Containing Baronial Examinations Relative to Food, Cottages and Cabins, Clothing and Furniture, Pawnbroking and Savings’ Banks, Drinking; and Supplement, Containing Answers to Questions 13 to 22 Circulated by the Commissioners. Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty (Reports from Commissioners: Fifteen Volumes; 11 (Poor Laws (Ireland): Appendix (E.): Session 4 February – 20 August 1836)), volume XXXII, London: Printed by W[illiam] Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street, for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, ULSTER—County Cavan—Baronies Castleraghan, Loughtee Upper [table], page 294:

The whisky shops and poteens of Scotland and Ireland, the gin-palaces and beer-shops of England, are an incubus that is dwarfing the good in every section of the community, and forcing out the evil.

[1875], M[ary] A[nna] Paull, “The Tenpenny Nail”, in St. Mungo’s Curse; or, The Crippled Singer of the Saltmarket, Manchester: Tubbs and Brook, 11, Market Street; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; F. Pitman, →OCLC, page 11:

(Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.


rum

rum (nominative singular)
rumy (nominative plural)
rumu (genitive singular)
rumů (genitive plural)
rumu (dative singular)
rumům (dative plural)
rum (accusative singular)
rumy (accusative plural)
rume (singular vocative)
rumy (plural vocative)
rumu (locative singular)
rumech (locative plural)
rumem (instrumental singular)
rumy (instrumental plural)


rum

Negerhollands: roem, rum


rum

rumok (plural)
rum (nominative singular)
rumok (nominative plural)
rumot (accusative singular)
rumokat (accusative plural)
rumnak (dative singular)
rumoknak (dative plural)
rummal (instrumental singular)
rumokkal (instrumental plural)
rumért (causal-final singular)
rumokért (causal-final plural)
rummá (singular translative)
rumokká (plural translative)
rumig (singular terminative)
rumokig (plural terminative)
rumként (essive-formal singular)
rumokként (essive-formal plural)
rumban (inessive singular)
rumokban (inessive plural)
rumon (singular superessive)
rumokon (plural superessive)
rumnál (adessive singular)
rumoknál (adessive plural)
rumba (illative singular)
rumokba (illative plural)
rumra (singular sublative)
rumokra (plural sublative)
rumhoz (allative singular)
rumokhoz (allative plural)
rumból (elative singular)
rumokból (elative plural)
rumról (delative singular)
rumokról (delative plural)
rumtól (ablative singular)
rumoktól (ablative plural)
rumé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
rumoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
ruméi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
rumokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
rumom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
rumjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
rumod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
rumjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
rumja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
rumjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
rumunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
rumjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
rumotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
rumjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
rumjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
rumjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

Borrowed from German Rum, from English rum.


rum

head

rum m (genitive singular rum, nominative plural rumanna)

rum (genitive singular)
rumanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
rum (indefinite singular)
rumanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a rum (indefinite singular)
a rumanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an rum (definite singular)
na rumanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
dative (definite)
leis an rum (definite singular)
don rum (definite singular)
leis na rumanna (definite plural)


rum

rum (nominative singular)
rumy (nominative plural)
rumu (genitive singular)
rumów (genitive plural)
rumowi (dative singular)
rumom (dative plural)
rum (accusative singular)
rumy (accusative plural)
rumem (instrumental singular)
rumami (instrumental plural)
rumie (locative singular)
rumach (locative plural)
rumie (singular vocative)
rumy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German rūm, roum, from Old High German rūm, from Proto-Germanic *rūmą.

bor+

(archaic, geology) broken debris, rock crumbs


(toxicology) The amount of a substance required to kill half of a given population; a measure of toxicity.


Nebuchadnezzar

/ˌnɛbəkəˈnɛzɚ/

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár), a corruption of earlier נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר (Nəḇûḵaḏreʾṣṣár), from Akkadian 𒀭𒀝𒃻𒁺𒋀 (Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur, “Nabu protect my boundary/heir”).

lbor

נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר

Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár

der

A ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty who reigned c. 605 B.C.E. – 562 B.C.E.. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Israelites into exile.


Nebuchadnezzar

/ˌnɛbəkəˈnɛzɚ/

lbor

נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר

Nəḇûḵaḏneʾṣṣár

A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 15 liters, equivalent to 20 standard bottles.


narcotic

From Middle English narcotyk, from Middle French narcotique (from Old French narcotique, noun use of adjective) and directly from Medieval Latin narcōticum, from Ancient Greek ναρκωτῐκόν (narkōtikón), neuter of ναρκωτῐκός (narkōtikós), from Ancient Greek ναρκόω (narkóō, “to benumb”), from νάρκη (nárkē, “numbness, torpor”).

der

"Real San Juan Colorado," he said. "Excitable people like you are the better for narcotics. Heavens! don't bite it! Cut - and cut with reverence!"

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

(pharmacology) Any substance or drug that reduces pain, induces sleep and may alter mood or behaviour; in some contexts, especially in reference to the opiates-and-opioids class, especially in reference to illegal drugs, and often both.


narcotic

en-adj

narcotic (comparative more narcotic, superlative most narcotic)

more narcotic (comparative)
most narcotic (superlative)

From Middle French narcotique or German narkotisch and directly from Medieval Latin narcōticus, from Ancient Greek ναρκωτῐκός (narkōtikós).

(pharmacology) Inducing sleep; causing narcosis.


narcotic

narcotice (plural)
narcotic (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
narcoticul (accusative definite nominative singular)
narcotice (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
narcoticele (accusative definite nominative plural)
narcotic (indefinite singular)
narcoticului (definite singular)
narcotice (indefinite plural)
narcoticelor (definite plural)
narcoticule (singular vocative)
narcoticelor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French narcotique or German narkotisch.


cobbler

Uncertain; it has been suggested that the word derives from cobbler’s punch (“warm drink made of beer with added spirit, sugar, and spices”), or because the drink patches up (“repairs; makes better”) the drinker.

[H]e produced a very large tumbler, piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two thin slices of lemon, and a golden liquid of delicious appearance, appeared from the still depths below, to the loving eye of the spectator. […] "This wonderful invention, sir," said Mark, tenderly patting the empty glass, "is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler when you name it long; cobbler, when you name it short.[…]"

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “Martin Enlarges His Circle of Acquaintance; […]”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, pages 223–224:

In the creed of Asirvadam the Brahmin, the drinker of strong drink is a Pariah, and the eater of cow's flesh is damned already. If, then, he can tell a cocktail from a cobbler, and scientifically discriminate between a julep and a gin-sling, it must be because the Vedas are unclasped to him; for in the Vedas all things are taught.

1858 June, “Asirvadam the Brahmin”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics, volume II, number VIII, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, […]; London: Trübner and Company, →OCLC, page 86, column 1:

It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers.

1878, Henry James, An International Episode:

(US, alcoholic beverages) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.


digitalis

id-noun

digitalis (plural digitalis-digitalis, first-person possessive digitalisku, second-person possessive digitalismu, third-person possessive digitalisnya)

digitalis-digitalis (plural)
digitalisku (first-person possessive)
digitalismu (possessive second-person)
digitalisnya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from English digitalis, from Latin digitālis (“of the fingers”) (named in reference to the German common name for the plant, Fingerhut (“thimble”)).

Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea#Translingual

(medicine, cardiology, pharmacology) digitalis: a medical extract of Digitalis purpurea prescribed for heart failure etc.


cyclopropane

en-noun

cyclopropane (countable and uncountable, plural cyclopropanes)

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) The simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₃H₆, an inflammable gas, sometimes used as an anaesthetic.

cyclopropaan

the simplest alicyclic hydrocarbon, C3H6


external

en-adj

external (comparative more external, superlative most external)

more external (comparative)
most external (superlative)

From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).

der

(pharmacology, relational) Relating to or denoting a medicine or similar substance for use on the outside of the body.


bloody mary

en-noun

bloody mary (plural bloody marys or bloody maries)

bloody marys (plural)
bloody maries (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bloody mary.wav

Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce

A cocktail made from vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings, such as Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, beef consommé or bouillon, horseradish, celery or celery salt, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and lemon juice.

bloody-mary

cocktail made from vodka and tomato juice


bloody mary

Unadapted borrowing from English bloody mary.

ubor

bloody mary (a cocktail made from vodka and tomato juice)


blackjack

en-noun

blackjack (countable and uncountable, plural blackjacks)

→ Polish: blackjack

"Next!" steps gingerly in to confront the medical eye fastened questioningly upon him. "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously treated and disgusted patients - have left him doubtful, and he casts, an anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief.

1914 October 11, The Sunday Times, Perth, Australia, page 1, column 9:

I remember Black Jack very well and actually like the smell. It is no longer available with that trade name but glycerine of ichthammol can still be bought in chemists.

2010 October 19, John Davies, birminghamhistory.co.uk:

Used to be called Black Jack think my mom had an ancient jar in her medicine cupboard.

2008 September 19, stef240377, MoneySavingExpert.com:

(pharmacology, UK, Australia, rare) Ammonium bituminosulfonate.


doc

un vino doc

(viticulture) certified as DOC (of a product, usually wine)


papaverine

papaverine (countable and uncountable, plural papaverines)

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.


vasodilator

(biochemistry, organic chemistry, pharmacology) A drug or chemical agent that causes dilation of the blood vessels thereby reducing blood pressure.


codeine

codeine (countable and uncountable, plural codeines)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-codeine.wav

From French codéine, from Ancient Greek κώδεια (kṓdeia, “capsule of the poppy, poppy head”) + -ine.

af

(pharmacology) An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.


morphine

en-noun

morphine (countable and uncountable, plural morphines)

Borrowed from French morphine or German Morphin, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús, “the god and personification of dreams”).

der

(biochemistry, pharmacology) A crystalline alkaloid (7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.


morphine

From Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús) + -ine.


atypical

atypical antipsychotic
atypical antipsychotic


vin

head

vin c (singular definite vinen, plural indefinite vine)

vinen (definite singular)
vine (indefinite plural)
vin (indefinite nominative singular)
vinen (definite nominative singular)
vine (indefinite nominative plural)
vinene (definite nominative plural)
vins (genitive indefinite singular)
vinens (definite genitive singular)
vines (genitive indefinite plural)
vinenes (definite genitive plural)

→ Greenlandic: viinni

From Old Danish win, from Old Norse vín, from Latin vīnum (“wine”).

(uncountable) wine (an alcoholic beverage made from grapes)


vin

→ Lao: ແວງ (wǣng)

→ Vietnamese: vang

⇒ du vin

→ Hausa: dùbbân

Louisiana Creole: diven

→ Malagasy: divay
→ Swahili: divai

Inherited from Middle French vin, from Old French vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.


vin

French: vin (see there for further descendants)

From Old French vin,from Latin vīnum (“wine”).

Quand je bois du vin clairet
Ami tout tourne, tourne, tourne, tourne
Aussi désormais je bois Anjou ou Arbois
Chantons et buvons, à ce flacon faisons la guerre

1530, anonymous, Quand je bois du vin clairet (tourdion)

When I drink a clairet wine,
friend, everything spins, spins, spins,
So these days I drink Anjou or Arbois wine.
Let us sing and drink and declare war on this bottle,
Let us sing and drink, friends, let us therefore drink!

Chantons et buvons, les amis, buvons donc !


vin

vinen (definite singular)
viner (indefinite plural)
vinene (definite plural)

From Old Norse vín, from Latin vīnum (“wine”).


vin

fro-noun

vin oblique singular, m (oblique plural vins, nominative singular vins, nominative plural vin)

vin oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
vins (oblique plural)
vins (nominative singular)
vin (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: veing

Gallo: vein

desctree

Middle French: vin
French: vin (see there for further descendants)

Norman: vîn (Jersey)

Walloon: vén

From Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom. Cognates include Ancient Greek ϝοῖνος (woînos, Aeolic variant), Ancient Greek οἶνος (oînos), Umbrian 𐌅𐌉𐌍𐌖 (vinu). The nominative singular derives from attested Vulgar Latin vīnus.

cog

Par verité
j’ai esprové
qu vin rinois
passent francois

Circa 1250, uncertain composer, Mout sont vallant cil de Gant (motet)

Truly I have found Rhineland wine to surpass both that of France and all the wines of Auxerre.


vin

vinuri (plural)
vin (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
vinul (accusative definite nominative singular)
vinuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
vinurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
vin (indefinite singular)
vinului (definite singular)
vinuri (indefinite plural)
vinurilor (definite plural)
vinule (singular vocative)
vinurilor (plural vocative)

Inherited from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Vezi că te îmbeți dacă bei prea mult din acest vin.

Careful or you'll get drunk if you drink too much of this wine.


vin

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) wine


vin

→ Finnish: viini

en flaska vin

hälla upp vin i ett vinglas

korka upp en flaska vin


vin

vin (nominative singular)
vinad (nominative plural)
vinan (accusative singular)
vinad (accusative plural)
vinan (genitive singular)
vinoiden (genitive plural)
vinad (partitive singular)
vinoid (partitive plural)
vinan (essive-instructive singular)
vinoin (essive-instructive plural)
vinaks (singular translative)
vinoikš (plural translative)
vinas (inessive singular)
vinoiš (inessive plural)
vinaspäi (elative singular)
vinoišpäi (elative plural)
vinaha (illative singular)
vinoihe (illative plural)
vinal (adessive singular)
vinoil (adessive plural)
vinalpäi (ablative singular)
vinoilpäi (ablative plural)
vinale (allative singular)
vinoile (allative plural)
vinata (abessive singular)
vinoita (abessive plural)
vinanke (comitative singular)
vinoidenke (comitative plural)
vinadme (prolative singular)
vinoidme (plural prolative)
vinanno (approximative approximative-i singular)
vinoidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
vinannoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
vinoidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
vinannopäi (egressive singular)
vinoidennopäi (egressive plural)
vinahasai (singular terminative terminative-i)
vinoihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
vinalesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
vinoilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
vinassai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
vinahapäi (additive additive-i singular)
vinoihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
vinalepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
vinoilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)

From Proto-Finnic *viina, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wīną. Cognates include Finnish viini.


vin

vins (nominative plural)
vin (nominative singular)
vins (nominative plural)
vina (genitive singular)
vinas (genitive plural)
vine (dative singular)
vines (dative plural)
vini (accusative singular)
vinis (accusative plural)
o vin! (singular vocative)
o vins! (plural vocative)
vinu (predicative singular)
vinus (plural predicative)


alko

alko (canonical inanimate masculine)
alko (canonical neuter)


absinto

Borrowed from French absinthe, from Latin absinthium.

Artemisia absinthium
Artemisia absinthium#Translingual

absinthe; wormwood (Artemisia absinthium, a herb of Eurasia and northern Africa)

absinthe (liquor made from absinthe flowers and leaves)


opiate

From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.

(pharmacology) Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.


opiate

(pharmacology) A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.


margarita

/ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/

/ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/

From Spanish margarita. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarite, Margherita, and marguerite.

doublet

A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.

cocktail with tequila, orange liqueur, and lime


margarita

→ English: margarita

→ Italian: margarita

From Latin margarīta, from Ancient Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs).


țuică

țuici (plural)
țuică (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
țuica (accusative definite nominative singular)
țuici (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
țuicile (accusative definite nominative plural)
țuici (indefinite singular)
țuicii (definite singular)
țuici (indefinite plural)
țuicilor (definite plural)
țuică (singular vocative)
țuico (singular vocative)
țuicilor (plural vocative)

Unknown. Possibly imitative. Compare Serbo-Croatian cujka.

(uncountable) brandy (traditional local 40-50% alcoholic beverage similar to Hungarian pálinka and Transylvanian palincă, made mostly from plums)


hypnotic

en-adj

hypnotic (comparative more hypnotic, superlative most hypnotic)

more hypnotic (comparative)
most hypnotic (superlative)

[hɪp̚ˈnɑ.ɾɪk̚]

From French hypnotique (“inclined to sleep, soporific”), from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπνωτικός (hupnōtikós, “inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, sleepy”), from ὑπνῶ (hupnô, “I put to sleep”), from ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).

der

(pharmacology) Inducing sleep; soporific.


hypnotic

[hɪp̚ˈnɑ.ɾɪk̚]


junky

en-adj

junky (comparative junkier, superlative junkiest)

junkier (comparative)
junkiest (superlative)

We really need to clear out the junky basement.


junky

(slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of junkie


hooch

en-noun

hooch (countable and uncountable, plural hooches)

Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived.

he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.

c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17:

Bring on the free hooch!

1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):

(Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.


junkie

→ German: Junkie

→ Spanish: yonqui

Rats in the front room, roaches in the back / Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat

1982, “The Message”, performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five:

It's wiser to say no / God made me a junkie / But Satan told me so

2023, “Strung Out Johnny”, in Every Loser, performed by Iggy Pop:

(slang, derogatory) A narcotics addict, especially a heroin user.


ecstasy

ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)

From Old French estaise (“ecstasy, rapture”), from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis), from ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).

(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form.


ecstasy

Unadapted borrowing from English ecstasy, from Old French estaise, from Latin ecstasis, from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις (ékstasis).

ubor

ecstasy (synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family, especially in a tablet form)


ecstasy

pt-noun

ecstasy m (usually uncountable, plural ecstasys)


biero

eo-head

biero (accusative singular bieron, plural bieroj, accusative plural bierojn)

bieron (accusative singular)
bieroj (plural)
bierojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from German Bier and French bière. Cognates include English beer, Yiddish ביר (bir), Italian birra.


gran

Borrowed from Medieval Latin grānum (“smallest unit of weight”), derived from Latin grānum (“grain; seed”). First attested in 1497.

der+

Alla de, ſom under ſjukdomen dagligen intogo 2 gran etiope, blefwo bewarade ifrån ſjukdomen.

1860 August 11, “Botmedel mot kolera [Cure for cholera]”, in Skara Nya Tidning:

All those who, during the disease, took 2 grain of ethiope daily, were preserved from the disease.

(historical, pharmacy) A Swedish grain at 61.85 mg, 1/20th of a skrupel (“1.237 g”).


snake oil

A type of 19th-century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments.


molasses

From Portuguese melaços or Spanish melazos, from Late Latin mellacium (“must, honey-sweet thing”), from mel (“honey”) + -āceus (“-aceous”) + -ium, q.v. Some alternative forms derived or influenced by Spanish melaza and French mélasse, conjectured to derive from unattested Late Latin mellacea, from mel + -ācea.

der

Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.

1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2:

When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.

melasse

thick brownish syrup refined from sugarcane


neurotoxin

There were stretches of days when the lakes were closed because of the algae. It sometimes secreted neurotoxins that could be fatal.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 31:

(neuroscience, toxicology, pharmacology) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.


ĉampano

eo-head

ĉampano (accusative singular ĉampanon, plural ĉampanoj, accusative plural ĉampanojn)

ĉampanon (accusative singular)
ĉampanoj (plural)
ĉampanojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (a clipping of Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”). Doublet of kampanjo and kampo.


tequila

en-noun

tequila (countable and uncountable, plural tequilas)

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish tequila, from Tequila, a town in Jalisco.

For a moment the bottle of tequila at the bottom of the garden gleamed on his soul, then the Consul stumbled into his bedroom.

1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 149:

An alcoholic liquor distilled from the fermented juice of the Central American century plant Agave tequilana.


tequila

nl-noun

tequila f (plural tequila's, diminutive tequilaatje n)

tequila's (plural)
tequilaatje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from Mexican Spanish tequila. The hyperforeign pronunciations listed in this entry seem to assume a Spanish form *tequilla, or simply result from a misunderstanding of Spanish pronunciation.


tequila

head

tequila (genitive tequila, partitive tequila't)

tequila (genitive)
tequila't (partitive)
tequila (nominative singular)
tequila'd (nominative plural)
tequila (genitive singular)
tequila'de (genitive plural)
tequila't (partitive singular)
tequila'sid (partitive plural)
tequila'sse (illative singular)
tequila'desse (illative plural)
tequila's (inessive singular)
tequila'des (inessive plural)
tequila'st (elative singular)
tequila'dest (elative plural)
tequila'le (allative singular)
tequila'dele (allative plural)
tequila'l (adessive singular)
tequila'del (adessive plural)
tequila'lt (ablative singular)
tequila'delt (ablative plural)
tequila'ks (singular translative)
tequila'deks (plural translative)
tequila'ni (singular terminative)
tequila'deni (plural terminative)
tequila'na (essive singular)
tequila'dena (essive plural)
tequila'ta (abessive singular)
tequila'deta (abessive plural)
tequila'ga (comitative singular)
tequila'dega (comitative plural)

et-decl-table

tequila (type initialism)

Unadapted borrowing from Mexican Spanish tequila.


tequila

tequila (nominative singular)
tequilat (nominative plural)
tequila (accusative nominative singular)
tequilat (accusative nominative plural)
tequilan (accusative genitive singular)
tequilat (accusative genitive plural)
tequilan (genitive singular)
tequiloiden (genitive plural)
tequiloitten (genitive plural)
tequilojen (genitive plural)
tequilain (genitive plural rare)
tequilaa (partitive singular)
tequiloita (partitive plural)
tequiloja (partitive plural)
tequilassa (inessive singular)
tequiloissa (inessive plural)
tequilasta (elative singular)
tequiloista (elative plural)
tequilaan (illative singular)
tequiloihin (illative plural)
tequilalla (adessive singular)
tequiloilla (adessive plural)
tequilalta (ablative singular)
tequiloilta (ablative plural)
tequilalle (allative singular)
tequiloille (allative plural)
tequilana (essive singular)
tequiloina (essive plural)
tequilaksi (singular translative)
tequiloiksi (plural translative)
tequilatta (abessive singular)
tequiloitta (abessive plural)
tequiloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tequilani (nominative singular)
tequilani (nominative plural)
tequilani (accusative nominative singular)
tequilani (accusative nominative plural)
tequilani (accusative genitive singular)
tequilani (accusative genitive plural)
tequilani (genitive singular)
tequiloideni (genitive plural)
tequiloitteni (genitive plural)
tequilojeni (genitive plural)
tequilaini (genitive plural rare)
tequilaani (partitive singular)
tequiloitani (partitive plural)
tequilojani (partitive plural)
tequilassani (inessive singular)
tequiloissani (inessive plural)
tequilastani (elative singular)
tequiloistani (elative plural)
tequilaani (illative singular)
tequiloihini (illative plural)
tequilallani (adessive singular)
tequiloillani (adessive plural)
tequilaltani (ablative singular)
tequiloiltani (ablative plural)
tequilalleni (allative singular)
tequiloilleni (allative plural)
tequilanani (essive singular)
tequiloinani (essive plural)
tequilakseni (singular translative)
tequiloikseni (plural translative)
tequilattani (abessive singular)
tequiloittani (abessive plural)
tequiloineni (comitative plural)
tequilasi (nominative singular)
tequilasi (nominative plural)
tequilasi (accusative nominative singular)
tequilasi (accusative nominative plural)
tequilasi (accusative genitive singular)
tequilasi (accusative genitive plural)
tequilasi (genitive singular)
tequiloidesi (genitive plural)
tequiloittesi (genitive plural)
tequilojesi (genitive plural)
tequilaisi (genitive plural rare)
tequilaasi (partitive singular)
tequiloitasi (partitive plural)
tequilojasi (partitive plural)
tequilassasi (inessive singular)
tequiloissasi (inessive plural)
tequilastasi (elative singular)
tequiloistasi (elative plural)
tequilaasi (illative singular)
tequiloihisi (illative plural)
tequilallasi (adessive singular)
tequiloillasi (adessive plural)
tequilaltasi (ablative singular)
tequiloiltasi (ablative plural)
tequilallesi (allative singular)
tequiloillesi (allative plural)
tequilanasi (essive singular)
tequiloinasi (essive plural)
tequilaksesi (singular translative)
tequiloiksesi (plural translative)
tequilattasi (abessive singular)
tequiloittasi (abessive plural)
tequiloinesi (comitative plural)
tequilamme (nominative singular)
tequilamme (nominative plural)
tequilamme (accusative nominative singular)
tequilamme (accusative nominative plural)
tequilamme (accusative genitive singular)
tequilamme (accusative genitive plural)
tequilamme (genitive singular)
tequiloidemme (genitive plural)
tequiloittemme (genitive plural)
tequilojemme (genitive plural)
tequilaimme (genitive plural rare)
tequilaamme (partitive singular)
tequiloitamme (partitive plural)
tequilojamme (partitive plural)
tequilassamme (inessive singular)
tequiloissamme (inessive plural)
tequilastamme (elative singular)
tequiloistamme (elative plural)
tequilaamme (illative singular)
tequiloihimme (illative plural)
tequilallamme (adessive singular)
tequiloillamme (adessive plural)
tequilaltamme (ablative singular)
tequiloiltamme (ablative plural)
tequilallemme (allative singular)
tequiloillemme (allative plural)
tequilanamme (essive singular)
tequiloinamme (essive plural)
tequilaksemme (singular translative)
tequiloiksemme (plural translative)
tequilattamme (abessive singular)
tequiloittamme (abessive plural)
tequiloinemme (comitative plural)
tequilanne (nominative singular)
tequilanne (nominative plural)
tequilanne (accusative nominative singular)
tequilanne (accusative nominative plural)
tequilanne (accusative genitive singular)
tequilanne (accusative genitive plural)
tequilanne (genitive singular)
tequiloidenne (genitive plural)
tequiloittenne (genitive plural)
tequilojenne (genitive plural)
tequilainne (genitive plural rare)
tequilaanne (partitive singular)
tequiloitanne (partitive plural)
tequilojanne (partitive plural)
tequilassanne (inessive singular)
tequiloissanne (inessive plural)
tequilastanne (elative singular)
tequiloistanne (elative plural)
tequilaanne (illative singular)
tequiloihinne (illative plural)
tequilallanne (adessive singular)
tequiloillanne (adessive plural)
tequilaltanne (ablative singular)
tequiloiltanne (ablative plural)
tequilallenne (allative singular)
tequiloillenne (allative plural)
tequilananne (essive singular)
tequiloinanne (essive plural)
tequilaksenne (singular translative)
tequiloiksenne (plural translative)
tequilattanne (abessive singular)
tequiloittanne (abessive plural)
tequiloinenne (comitative plural)
tequilansa (nominative singular)
tequilansa (nominative plural)
tequilansa (accusative nominative singular)
tequilansa (accusative nominative plural)
tequilansa (accusative genitive singular)
tequilansa (accusative genitive plural)
tequilansa (genitive singular)
tequiloidensa (genitive plural)
tequiloittensa (genitive plural)
tequilojensa (genitive plural)
tequilainsa (genitive plural rare)
tequilaansa (partitive singular)
tequiloitaan (partitive plural)
tequilojaan (partitive plural)
tequiloitansa (partitive plural)
tequilojansa (partitive plural)
tequilassaan (inessive singular)
tequilassansa (inessive singular)
tequiloissaan (inessive plural)
tequiloissansa (inessive plural)
tequilastaan (elative singular)
tequilastansa (elative singular)
tequiloistaan (elative plural)
tequiloistansa (elative plural)
tequilaansa (illative singular)
tequiloihinsa (illative plural)
tequilallaan (adessive singular)
tequilallansa (adessive singular)
tequiloillaan (adessive plural)
tequiloillansa (adessive plural)
tequilaltaan (ablative singular)
tequilaltansa (ablative singular)
tequiloiltaan (ablative plural)
tequiloiltansa (ablative plural)
tequilalleen (allative singular)
tequilallensa (allative singular)
tequiloilleen (allative plural)
tequiloillensa (allative plural)
tequilanaan (essive singular)
tequilanansa (essive singular)
tequiloinaan (essive plural)
tequiloinansa (essive plural)
tequilakseen (singular translative)
tequilaksensa (singular translative)
tequiloikseen (plural translative)
tequiloiksensa (plural translative)
tequilattaan (abessive singular)
tequilattansa (abessive singular)
tequiloittaan (abessive plural)
tequiloittansa (abessive plural)
tequiloineen (comitative plural)
tequiloinensa (comitative plural)


tequila

tequila (nominative singular)
tequile (nominative plural)
tequili (genitive singular)
tequili (genitive plural)
tequili (dative singular)
tequilom (dative plural)
tequilę (accusative singular)
tequile (accusative plural)
tequilą (instrumental singular)
tequilami (instrumental plural)
tequili (locative singular)
tequilach (locative plural)
tequilo (singular vocative)
tequile (plural vocative)


tequila

→ English: tequila

→ Russian: теки́ла (tekíla)

→ Turkish: tekila

From Tequila, the town in Jalisco, Mexico where the drink was originally made.


brando

eo-head

brando (accusative singular brandon, plural brandoj, accusative plural brandojn)

brandon (accusative singular)
brandoj (plural)
brandojn (accusative plural)

From English brandy, a shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”).


THC

thermohaline circulation
thermohaline circulation#English

Abbreviation of thermohaline circulation.


acetaminophen

Shortening of the chemical name para-acetylaminophenol. By surface analysis, acet- + amino- + -phen.

surf

You need to take acetaminophen / Or just a little aspirin / acetylsalicylic for the pain

1997, “The Druggist”, Joel Mabus (music):

(Canada, US) A white crystalline compound used in medicine as an anodyne to relieve pain and reduce fever.


stubbie

2006, Tom Conyers, Morse Code for Cats, 2008, Zeus Publications, Australia, page 59,
Joe drank his lone stubbie of light beer like it was poison – which isn′t far wrong.

Every time you throw your Coke can or your stubbie, or leave your McDonald′s wrapper on the beach, you spoil our beautiful pristine coastline.

2002, Patsy McCarthy, Caroline Hatcher, Presentation Skills: The Essential Guide for Students, Australia: Allen & Unwin, page 99:

The communal area is constantly cruisey, whether you′re slung low in a hammock or sipping your BYO stubbie in the cool, cushioned area with a frayed map in hand.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 384:

In PNG we would buy beer wholesale at around 10 cents per stubbie or can, and sell it to ourselves at 20 cents per stubbie or can.

2011, S. J. Waddell, Exploration Days: An a to Z of Ways of Dying in Mineral Exploration, Xlibris, page 76:

(Australia, New Zealand) A small beer bottle with a distinctive squat shape; a stubby.


tetrahydrocannabinol

en-noun

tetrahydrocannabinol (countable and uncountable, plural tetrahydrocannabinols)

While the agency hasn’t proposed changing its 2023 6.7 million-gram quota for marijuana for 2024, it is now calling for the manufacturing of 900,610 grams of delta-9 THC and 790,010 grams of all other tetrahydrocannabinol. That represents another increase after DEA already moved this week to nearly double the 2023 quota for delta-9 THC to 628,460 grams and called for 350,000 grams of other tetrahydrocannabinols.

2023 February 11, Kyle Jaeger, “DEA Wants Nearly 1 Million Grams Of Delta-9 THC Manufactured For Research Next Year In Latest Schedule I Quota Hike”, in Marijuana Moment:

(organic chemistry) The psychoactive substance present in cannabis, a hydrogenated derivative of cannabinol.


paracetamol

paracetamol (countable and uncountable, plural paracetamols)

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound used as a drug to relieve and reduce fever, usually taken in tablet form.


paracetamol

nl-noun

paracetamol m (uncountable, diminutive paracetamolletje n)

Contraction of para-acetylaminofenol, probably influenced by English paracetamol.

acetaminophen (white crystalline compound used in medicine as an anodyne to relieve pain and reduce fever)


psychoactive

en-adj

psychoactive (comparative more psychoactive, superlative most psychoactive)

more psychoactive (comparative)
most psychoactive (superlative)

LSD and DMT are psychoactive drugs.

(pharmacology) Affecting the mind or mental processes.

въздействащ на психиката

pharmacology: affecting the mind or mental processes


psychoactive

LSD and DMT are psychoactives.

(pharmacology) Any drug that affects the mind or mental processes.


brandy

en-noun

brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)

→ Abenaki: blandi

→ Basque: brandy

→ Cebuano: brandi

→ Chinese:

Cantonese: 拔蘭地／拔兰地 (bat⁶ laan⁴⁻¹ dei⁶⁻²), 白蘭地／白兰地 (baak⁶ laan⁴⁻¹ dei⁶⁻²)

Mandarin: 白蘭地／白兰地 (báilándì)

Min Nan: 物蘭池／物兰池 (bu̍t-lân-tî)

→ Czech: brandy

→ Danish: brandy

→ Dutch: brandy

→ Esperanto: brando

→ Estonian: brändi

→ Finnish: brandy

→ Galician: brandy

→ German: Brandy

→ Greek: μπράντι (bránti)

→ Hungarian: brandy

→ Icelandic: brandí

→ Irish: branda

→ Italian: brandy

→ Japanese: ブランデー (burandē)

→ Korean: 브랜디 (beuraendi)

→ Lower Sorbian: brandy

→ Norwegian: brandy

→ Occitan: brandy

→ Polish: brandy

desc

→ Portuguese: brande, (unadapted form) brandy

→ Romanian: brandy

desctree

→ Russian: бренди (brendi)
→ Armenian: բրենդի (brendi)

→ Scottish Gaelic: branndaidh

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: бренди

Latin script: brendi

→ Spanish: brandy

→ Swahili: brandi

→ Swedish: brandy

→ Tagalog: brandi

→ Thai: บรั่นดี (bà-ràn-dii)

→ Turkish: brendi

→ Vietnamese: brandy, branđi

→ Welsh: brandi

Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”). Compare German Brantewein, Branntwein.

(uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.


brandy

en-verb

brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)

brandies (present singular third-person)
brandying (participle present)
brandied (participle past)
brandied (past)

(transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

säilöä brandyyn

to preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy


brandy

brandy (nominative singular)
brandyt (nominative plural)
brandy (accusative nominative singular)
brandyt (accusative nominative plural)
brandyn (accusative genitive singular)
brandyt (accusative genitive plural)
brandyn (genitive singular)
brandyjen (genitive plural)
brandyä (partitive singular)
brandyjä (partitive plural)
brandyssä (inessive singular)
brandyissä (inessive plural)
brandystä (elative singular)
brandyistä (elative plural)
brandyyn (illative singular)
brandyihin (illative plural)
brandyllä (adessive singular)
brandyillä (adessive plural)
brandyltä (ablative singular)
brandyiltä (ablative plural)
brandylle (allative singular)
brandyille (allative plural)
brandynä (essive singular)
brandyinä (essive plural)
brandyksi (singular translative)
brandyiksi (plural translative)
brandyttä (abessive singular)
brandyittä (abessive plural)
brandyin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
brandyni (nominative singular)
brandyni (nominative plural)
brandyni (accusative nominative singular)
brandyni (accusative nominative plural)
brandyni (accusative genitive singular)
brandyni (accusative genitive plural)
brandyni (genitive singular)
brandyjeni (genitive plural)
brandyäni (partitive singular)
brandyjäni (partitive plural)
brandyssäni (inessive singular)
brandyissäni (inessive plural)
brandystäni (elative singular)
brandyistäni (elative plural)
brandyyni (illative singular)
brandyihini (illative plural)
brandylläni (adessive singular)
brandyilläni (adessive plural)
brandyltäni (ablative singular)
brandyiltäni (ablative plural)
brandylleni (allative singular)
brandyilleni (allative plural)
brandynäni (essive singular)
brandyinäni (essive plural)
brandykseni (singular translative)
brandyikseni (plural translative)
brandyttäni (abessive singular)
brandyittäni (abessive plural)
brandyineni (comitative plural)
brandysi (nominative singular)
brandysi (nominative plural)
brandysi (accusative nominative singular)
brandysi (accusative nominative plural)
brandysi (accusative genitive singular)
brandysi (accusative genitive plural)
brandysi (genitive singular)
brandyjesi (genitive plural)
brandyäsi (partitive singular)
brandyjäsi (partitive plural)
brandyssäsi (inessive singular)
brandyissäsi (inessive plural)
brandystäsi (elative singular)
brandyistäsi (elative plural)
brandyysi (illative singular)
brandyihisi (illative plural)
brandylläsi (adessive singular)
brandyilläsi (adessive plural)
brandyltäsi (ablative singular)
brandyiltäsi (ablative plural)
brandyllesi (allative singular)
brandyillesi (allative plural)
brandynäsi (essive singular)
brandyinäsi (essive plural)
brandyksesi (singular translative)
brandyiksesi (plural translative)
brandyttäsi (abessive singular)
brandyittäsi (abessive plural)
brandyinesi (comitative plural)
brandymme (nominative singular)
brandymme (nominative plural)
brandymme (accusative nominative singular)
brandymme (accusative nominative plural)
brandymme (accusative genitive singular)
brandymme (accusative genitive plural)
brandymme (genitive singular)
brandyjemme (genitive plural)
brandyämme (partitive singular)
brandyjämme (partitive plural)
brandyssämme (inessive singular)
brandyissämme (inessive plural)
brandystämme (elative singular)
brandyistämme (elative plural)
brandyymme (illative singular)
brandyihimme (illative plural)
brandyllämme (adessive singular)
brandyillämme (adessive plural)
brandyltämme (ablative singular)
brandyiltämme (ablative plural)
brandyllemme (allative singular)
brandyillemme (allative plural)
brandynämme (essive singular)
brandyinämme (essive plural)
brandyksemme (singular translative)
brandyiksemme (plural translative)
brandyttämme (abessive singular)
brandyittämme (abessive plural)
brandyinemme (comitative plural)
brandynne (nominative singular)
brandynne (nominative plural)
brandynne (accusative nominative singular)
brandynne (accusative nominative plural)
brandynne (accusative genitive singular)
brandynne (accusative genitive plural)
brandynne (genitive singular)
brandyjenne (genitive plural)
brandyänne (partitive singular)
brandyjänne (partitive plural)
brandyssänne (inessive singular)
brandyissänne (inessive plural)
brandystänne (elative singular)
brandyistänne (elative plural)
brandyynne (illative singular)
brandyihinne (illative plural)
brandyllänne (adessive singular)
brandyillänne (adessive plural)
brandyltänne (ablative singular)
brandyiltänne (ablative plural)
brandyllenne (allative singular)
brandyillenne (allative plural)
brandynänne (essive singular)
brandyinänne (essive plural)
brandyksenne (singular translative)
brandyiksenne (plural translative)
brandyttänne (abessive singular)
brandyittänne (abessive plural)
brandyinenne (comitative plural)
brandynsä (nominative singular)
brandynsä (nominative plural)
brandynsä (accusative nominative singular)
brandynsä (accusative nominative plural)
brandynsä (accusative genitive singular)
brandynsä (accusative genitive plural)
brandynsä (genitive singular)
brandyjensä (genitive plural)
brandyään (partitive singular)
brandyänsä (partitive singular)
brandyjään (partitive plural)
brandyjänsä (partitive plural)
brandyssään (inessive singular)
brandyssänsä (inessive singular)
brandyissään (inessive plural)
brandyissänsä (inessive plural)
brandystään (elative singular)
brandystänsä (elative singular)
brandyistään (elative plural)
brandyistänsä (elative plural)
brandyynsä (illative singular)
brandyihinsä (illative plural)
brandyllään (adessive singular)
brandyllänsä (adessive singular)
brandyillään (adessive plural)
brandyillänsä (adessive plural)
brandyltään (ablative singular)
brandyltänsä (ablative singular)
brandyiltään (ablative plural)
brandyiltänsä (ablative plural)
brandylleen (allative singular)
brandyllensä (allative singular)
brandyilleen (allative plural)
brandyillensä (allative plural)
brandynään (essive singular)
brandynänsä (essive singular)
brandyinään (essive plural)
brandyinänsä (essive plural)
brandykseen (singular translative)
brandyksensä (singular translative)
brandyikseen (plural translative)
brandyiksensä (plural translative)
brandyttään (abessive singular)
brandyttänsä (abessive singular)
brandyittään (abessive plural)
brandyittänsä (abessive plural)
brandyineen (comitative plural)
brandyinensä (comitative plural)

From English brandy, short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn.

brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)


brandy

Unadapted borrowing from English brandy.


brandy

brandy (alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice)


anodyne

en-adj

anodyne (comparative more anodyne, superlative most anodyne)

more anodyne (comparative)
most anodyne (superlative)

From Middle English anodine, from Medieval Latin anōdynos (“stilling or relieving pain”), from Ancient Greek ἀνώδυνος (anṓdunos, “free from pain”), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὀδύνη (odúnē, “pain”).
Adjective sense “noncontentious” probably through French anodin (“harmless, trivial”), of same origin.

der

Many a time has the vapor of ether been inhaled for the relief of oppressed lungs; many a time has the sought relief been thus obtained; and just so many times has the discovery of the wonderful anodyne properties of this gas, as affecting all bodily suffering, been brushed past and overlooked.

1847 June 12, Littell's Living Age, volume 13, number 161, page 483:

The citrate is the most efficient as an alkali, but irritates some stomachs, the liquor the most anodyne, the acetate the most diuretic.

1910, Edward L. Keyes, Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs, page 211:

(pharmacology) Capable of soothing or eliminating pain.


anodyne

(pharmacology) Any medicine or other agent that relieves pain.

болкоуспокояващо

any medicine or other agent that relieves pain


bordo

pl-adj

bordo (not comparable, no derived adverb)

bordo:

bordeaux, claret (having a dark red color tinged with purple, like that of Bordeaux (red) wine)


bordo

bordeaux (dark red color tinged with purple, like that of Burgundy (red) wine)

Bordeaux (wine coming from Bordeaux in France)


SAR

en-noun

SAR (countable and uncountable, plural SARs)

structure-activity relationship
structure-activity relationship#English

(pharmacology) Initialism of structure-activity relationship.


schooner

Attested ca. 1715, of uncertain origin. Said to be derived from dialectal scoon (“to skim over water”). Compare also shunt (“to cause to move (suddenly)”).

Boycott any pub that bans work clothes, allows customers to reserve tables or only sells beer in schooners. That is less a pub, more a private members’ club.

2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(UK) A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.

Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.

a. 1964, Arthur Upfield, “Fozen Pumps”, in Kees de Hoog, editor, Up and Down Australia: Short Stories Selected by Kees de Hoog, published 2008, page 67:

And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.

2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 94:

For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA′s impressive wine.

2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Meg Worby, Lindsay Brown, Paul Harding, Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin, Lonely Planet, page 59:

(Australia) A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).

(US) A large goblet or drinking glass, used for lager or ale (Wikipedia).


eggnog

eggnog (countable and uncountable, plural eggnogs)

American English c. 1775 (although drinks like it are attested far earlier, e.g. posset, of which a monastic Christmas recipe used eggs), from egg + nog.
The second element is uncertain and long-debated; prominent claims include Norfolk dialect nog (“strong ale”), or a clipping of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”) (q.v.). Other hypotheses include a variant of grog (“rum-and-water cocktail”), and descent from Old Norse (compare wassail).

A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy, or whisky; popular at Christmas.


session

→ Japanese: セッション (sesshon)

→ Korean: 세션 (sesyeon)

→ Scottish Gaelic: seisean

From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).

(beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.


MLS

MLS (countable and uncountable, plural MLSs)

Coordinate term: MLSB

(pharmacology) Initialism of macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin.


uisce beatha

head

uisce beatha m (genitive singular uisce bheatha)

uisce bheatha (genitive singular)
uisce beatha
n-uisce beatha
huisce beatha

desc

English: → usquebaugh, water of life, whiskey

→ Yola: usquebaugh, usbaugh

/ˈɪʃcɪ ˈbʲahə/

From uisce (“water”) + beatha (“life”), a calque of Latin aqua vītae (“water of life”). Compare Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha.


louche

en-verb

louche (third-person singular simple present louches, present participle louching, simple past and past participle louched)

louches (present singular third-person)
louching (participle present)
louched (participle past)
louched (past)

Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching.

In distillation, the first few liters of absinthe to come out of the still are called the head; the last few liters are the tail. The head and tail don't have enough alcohol to keep the oils in suspension, so the absinthe comes out of the still louched.

2010, Paul Owens, Paul Nathan, Dave Herlong, The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN:

I found a little corner to stand in and pretended to sip my own louched absinthe.

2012, Heather E. Hutsell, chapter 1, in Blood Mettle, [s.l.]: Fatty Baby Cat Publishing, →ISBN, page 2:

Ah, Mr. Sizemore, the green fairy is best prepared carefully and slowly to appreciate its full potential. Simply fill the fountain with iced water, place your glass of absinthe below the spigot with a single sugar cube placed over a slotted spoon and adjust the tap to your desired flow. The cold water will gradually dissolve the sugar and mix with the absinthe in a process known as louching.

2015, Jason Sizemore, For Exposure: The Life and Times of a Small Press Publisher, Lexington, Ky.: Apex Publishers, →ISBN:

(transitive) To make (an alcoholic beverage, e.g. absinthe or ouzo) cloudy by mixing it with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the ouzo effect.


mid

meda (genitive)
mid (nominative singular)
mid (singular vocative)
mid (accusative singular)
medo (genitive singular)
meda (genitive singular)
mid (dative singular)
mid
also mmid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel

Middle Irish: mid

Irish: meá

Scottish Gaelic: meadh

From Primitive Irish *ᚋᚓᚇᚒ (*medu), from Proto-Celtic *medu, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

mesce tre ol corma(e) nó chingiti meda(e)

c. 815-840, “The Monastery of Tallaght”, in Edward J. Gwynn, Walter J. Purton, transl., Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 29, Royal Irish Academy, published 1911-1912, paragraph 40, pages 115-179:

tipsiness through drinking beer or a goblet of mead


gin

en-noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).


gin

gin (nominative singular)
giny (nominative plural)
ginu (genitive singular)
ginů (genitive plural)
ginu (dative singular)
ginům (dative plural)
gin (accusative singular)
giny (accusative plural)
gine (singular vocative)
giny (plural vocative)
ginu (locative singular)
ginech (locative plural)
ginem (instrumental singular)
giny (instrumental plural)


gin

gin (nominative singular)
giny (nominative plural)
ginu (genitive singular)
ginów (genitive plural)
ginowi (dative singular)
ginom (dative plural)
gin (accusative singular)
giny (accusative plural)
ginem (instrumental singular)
ginami (instrumental plural)
ginie (locative singular)
ginach (locative plural)
ginie (singular vocative)
giny (plural vocative)


minstrel

The noun is derived from Middle English minstral, menestrel (“actor; juggler; mime; musician; singer; storyteller; (military) soldier playing a horn or trumpet as a signal”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman menestrel [and other forms] and Old French menestrel (“artisan; servant; itinerant musician or poet; worker”) [and other forms] (modern French ménestrel (“minstrel”)), from Late Latin ministerialis (“official or retainer owing household and military service to a feudal lord, a ministerial or ministerialis”), from Latin ministerium (“employment, ministration; office of a minister, ministry; action or attendance by an inferior person such as a slave, service”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). Ministerium is derived from minister (“accomplice; agent; aide; attendant; servant; waiter”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“little, small”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). Doublet of ministerial and ministerialis.
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

menestral, menstrel, menstrelle, menstral, menstrale, menstrall, menstralle, menstrel, menstrell, menstrelle, minestral, minestrale, ministral, ministrele, minsterel, minstrale, minstrall, minstralle, minstrel, minstrelle, munstral, munstrel, munstrell, mynestral, mynistralle, mynsterel, mynstraell, mynstral, mynstrale, mynstrall, mynstralle, mynstrel, mynstrell, mynstrelle, mynystral, mynystrel, mynystrell

doublet

These include dexamphetamine ( Dexedrine 'dexies ' or 'oranges'), methylamphetamine (Methedrine—'speed'), dexamphetamine combined with amylobarbitone (Drinamyl—'purple hearts' or 'blues'), amphetamine combined with dexamphetamine (Anorexine 12.5 mg - black and white minstrels' and Anorexine 20 mg—'black bombs'), phemetrazine (Preludin), diethylpropion (Tenuate), and methylphenidate (Ritalin).

Lacking food, Jimmy reverts to his “minstrels'” — speed — and in a paranoia of drugs and near-starvation the pair fall out.

2008, Julian Evans, Semi-Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis, page 510:

Roger had always been ... libidinous, aren't we all? ... but his powerful body began to writhe with the unearthly flexions of the Kundalini spirit, and after swallowing a couple of nigger minstrels Lesley had given him he spent most of one Friday morning house meeting sitting cross-legged, clutching his crotch and chanting, My dick is God, God is my dick ... over and over again, until Zack had though he would stick my fingers in his eyes, my thumb in his third one, and tear his bloody head off! – Skinning up and smoking a little shit – this Zack hadn't minded, and with two or three residents, in the right surroundings and carefully guided, he believed LSD could have therapeutic benefits.

Harry tipped the contents of Billy's bag on to his desk: boosters, purple hearts, black bombers, French blues, nigger minstrels spilled out, popping across the desk like jumping beans.

2018, J. L. Walker, Jump and Dance, page 151:

(by extension, slang) An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.

Green’s Dictionary of Slang
w:Green's Dictionary of Slang


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

John is a crank because he talks to himself.

Persons whom the Americans since Guiteau’s trial have begun to designate as ‘cranks’—that is to say, persons of disordered mind, in whom the itch of notoriety supplies the lack of any higher ambition.

The raw meat cranks are in dead earnest. They think that raw food is the manna of heaven.

1901 July 19, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 318:

But do you know what isn't in the school books? That old Rossum was mad. Seriously, Miss Glory, you must keep this to yourself. The old crank wanted to actually make people.

c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:

(informal, British, dated in US) A person who is considered strange or odd by others, and may behave in unconventional ways.


gin and tonic

en-noun

gin and tonic (countable and uncountable, plural gin and tonics or (uncommon) gins and tonic or gins and tonics)

gin and tonics (plural)
gins and tonic (plural uncommon)
gins and tonics (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gin and tonic.wav

She drank gin and tonic by preference.

(uncountable) A simple cocktail made from gin and tonic water, often served on ice and with a slice of lime or lemon.


buccal

(pharmacology) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.


ampelography

From French ampélographie, from ampelo- (“vine”) + -graphy.

She is the American apostle of Pierre Galet, a Frenchman whose internationally recognized contribution to ampelography, or the science of classifying grape vines, rests on identifying leaf design and the appearance of a vine's growing tips.

1986 August 6, Howard G. Goldberg, “Wine Talk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C18:

Scientists are just now devising a genetic test to distinguish one rootstock from another. Until they do, the only recourse is the arcane art of ampelography, in which the vines are identified by physical appearance. Like art authenticators, ampelographers practice a craft that they would have others think is a science.

1993 October 17, Arthur Lubow, “What's Killing the Grapevines of Napa?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The mainstay of grapevine identification is the science of ampelography, and manuals of ampelography (Galet 1971) are the major resource for grapevine identification.

1993, Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference, Volume 8, Australian Wine Research Institute, page 78:

(botany, oenology) The discipline within botany concerned with the taxonomy of cultivars in the grapevine genus, Vitis.


ESA

erythropoiesis-stimulating agent
w:erythropoiesis-stimulating agent

(pharmacology) Initialism of erythropoiesis-stimulating agent.


attenuate

en-verb

attenuate (third-person singular simple present attenuates, present participle attenuating, simple past and past participle attenuated)

attenuates (present singular third-person)
attenuating (participle present)
attenuated (participle past)
attenuated (past)

From Latin attenuāre, from attenuāt-, at- = ad- (“to”) + tenuāre (“to make thin”), tenuis (“thin”).

A beer which does not attenuate to the expected level in fermentation will have more residual sugar and thus be sweeter and heavier-bodied.

2009 July–August, John Palmer, “Attenuation: Advanced Brewing”, in Brew Your Own, archived from the original on 2013-10-06:

(brewing) (of a beer) To become less dense as a result of the conversion of sugar to alcohol.


quinine

en-noun

quinine (countable and uncountable, plural quinines)

Audio (US)

The noun is either:
* derived from Spanish quina (“quinine”) (a clipping of quinaquina (“Cinchona bark”)) + English -ine (suffix forming names of chemical substances, especially (among others) alkaloidal substances); or
* borrowed from French quinine, from quin(quina) (“Cinchona bark”) + -ine (feminine form of -in (suffix forming nouns)).
Spanish quinaquina and French quinquina are both derived from Quechua kina-kina, a reduplication of kina (“bark; (specifically) Cinchona bark”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

clipping

The alkali of yellow bark may be distinguished from cinchonine by the name of quinine.

1821, The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, volume 10:

The quinine, being more potent than cinchonine, is generally preferred.

1828, The Medical Guide, Quinine, cinchonine, and sulphate of quinine:

In spite of quinine, the men sickened day by day. Many of them, fine, strong, active fellows, who had never known what a day's sickness meant, went down before the malarious mist that gathered in the jungles.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 102:

He hadn't the faintest idea what to do with a cold in the head, he just took quinine and continued to blow his nose.

1922, Michael Arlen, “2/9/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC:

“Die? Yes, they’ll all die—all these men. No bandages, no salves, no quinine, no chloroform. Oh, God, for some morphia! Just a little morphia for the worst ones. Just a little chloroform. God damn the Yankees! God damn the Yankees!”

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 363:

I propose that the availability of increased stores of quinine under British control had a similar facilitating effect on the British colonial expansion into Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

1979, Lucile H. Brockway, Science and Colonial Expansion, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 127:

So far, the daily dose of quinine had been bitter and very unpalatable. […] To make the medicine go down more easily, colonialists occasionally mixed the powder with sugar, water and gin.

2014, Olivia Williams, “Gin is the Tonic”, in Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London, London: Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 163:

(pharmacology) An alkaloid with the chemical formula C₂₀H₂₄N₂O₂, originally derived from cinchona bark (from plants of the genus Cinchona), used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water, which presents as a bitter colourless powder; also, a drug containing quinine or a chemical compound derived from it.


hophead

(British, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer.


glycopyrrolate

A drug of the group of muscarinic anticholinergic drugs with stronger effect for anti-salivary effect and weak effect for increasing heart-rate.


lunchbox

The campaign tagline, 'I've got a tiny packet', is written across [Linford] Christie's trademark impressively muscled upper body. 'Tiny packet' makes us remember that Linford is known for his 'lunchbox' from his heyday as a sprinter because of the bulge apparent in his lycra shorts. His lunchbox and now his tiny packet allude to the diminishing of black men to just their genitals[…]

2015, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Shirley Anne Tate, Creolizing Europe: Legacies and Transformations, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109:

(slang, UK) The male genitals when enclosed in clothing.

(especially Asia) A lunch packaged in a disposable box to be taken away to eat.

You'll find a mix among clamshell laptops for strong laps, lunchboxes, and sewing-machine configurations; the latter two designs typically have detachable keyboards.

1988 October 11, PC Mag, volume 7, number 17, page 93:

The performance difference between desktops and lunchboxes was practically nil.

2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 20:

(computing, slang) A luggable; an early laptop computer, usually a unit with a handle and a fold-out keyboard.

A cocktail made with beer, orange juice, and almond liqueur.


shandy

en-noun

shandy (countable and uncountable, plural shandies)

(uncountable, UK, Ireland) A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.


trade name

առևտրային անվանում

Patients who come to the pharmacy counter may remember the trade name of their prescription but not the nonproprietary name, or vice versa.

registered trademark
registered trademark

international nonproprietary name
international nonproprietary name

A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be a registered trademark.

(medicine, pharmacology) The company-specific name for a drug (medication), in contrast with a nonproprietary name such as an INN (international nonproprietary name), USAN (United States adopted name), JAN (Japanese accepted name), and so on.


amphetamine

amphetamine (countable and uncountable, plural amphetamines)

Shortened form of a(lpha-)m(ethyl)ph(en)eth(yl)amine.

substituted amphetamine
substituted amphetamine

(informal, nonstandard) Referring to a substituted amphetamine; a member of the amphetamine class of chemicals.

central nervous system
central nervous system

(medicine, pharmacology) A potent central nervous system stimulant of the phenethylamine chemical class that is used to treat ADHD, narcolepsy, and obesity.


Bacchus

la-proper noun

Bacchus m (genitive Bacchī); second declension

Bacchī (genitive)
Bacchus (nominative singular)
Bacchī (nominative plural)
Bacchī (genitive singular)
Bacchōrum (genitive plural)
Bacchō (dative singular)
Bacchīs (dative plural)
Bacchum (accusative singular)
Bacchōs (accusative plural)
Bacchō (ablative singular)
Bacchīs (ablative plural)
Bacche (singular vocative)
Bacchī (plural vocative)

→ English: Bacchus (learned)

→ French: Bacchus (learned)

→ Italian: Bacco, bacco (learned)

→ Portuguese: Baco (learned)

→ Spanish: Baco (learned)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βάκχος (Bákkhos).

bor+

Tum vīctū revocant vīrēs, fūsīque per herbamimplentur veteris Bacchī pinguisque ferīnae.

29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.214–215

Then they restore their strength with the provisions, and, stretched on the grass, they fill up on old wine and fat venison.


barbiturate

/ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈbɪt͡ʃəɹɪt/

/ˌbɑː(ɹ)ˈbɪt͡ʃəɹeɪt/

/ˌbɑɹbɪˈt(j)ʊəɹɪt/

/ˌbɑɹˈbɪt͡ʃu.ɪt/

Coordinate term: benzodiazepine

Following the “Summer of Love” in 1967, amphetamines and barbiturates began to replace psychedelics as the dominant drugs used in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, and increasing numbers of individuals were treated at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic for complications following barbiturate use.

1977, Donald R. Wesson, David Elvin Smith, Barbiturates, their use, misuse, and abuse, New York: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, page 9:

(pharmacology) Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous system and are used as sedatives or hypnotics.

باربتيورات

derivative of barbituric acid that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system


sweets

→ Japanese: スイーツ

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sweets.wav


stimulant

(pharmacology) A substance that acts to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body.

стимулант

substance acting to increase physiological or nervous activity in the body


alt

liquid alts

alternative investment
alternative investment

(finance) An alternative investment or alternative fund.


hashish

Transliteration of Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).


dynamite

en-noun

dynamite (usually uncountable, plural dynamites)

Coined by Alfred Nobel in 1867. Ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”) + -ite, most likely under the influence of dynamo or dynamic.

der

A class of explosives made from nitroglycerine in an absorbent medium such as kieselguhr, used in mining and blasting.

(informal, proscribed) A stick of trinitrotoluene (TNT).

(slang) A strong drug, in particular heroin, cocaine or potent marijuana.


dynamite

en-verb

dynamite (third-person singular simple present dynamites, present participle dynamiting, simple past and past participle dynamited)

dynamites (present singular third-person)
dynamiting (participle present)
dynamited (participle past)
dynamited (past)

[...] on Sunday, August 23, the L.N.W.R. tunnel was closed to enable the old brickwork to be dynamited away, traffic being diverted meanwhile through the M.R. tunnel.

1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:

To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.

dinamitar

to blow up with dynamite or other high explosive

the brakes will dynamite

(intransitive, of brakes) To lock up from being invoked too suddenly.


inotropic

/ˌɪn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪk/

From Ancient Greek ἴς (ís, “sinew, tendon; strength, force”) + -tropic (“affecting, changing”), from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn, direction, way”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

af

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-ic</i>

(medicine, pharmacology) An inotropic heart drug.


chino

From China + -o.
Variety stores are called chinos because almost all variety stores in Spain are run by Chinese people.

(colloquial, Spain) heroin (taken by chasing the dragon)


poitín

poitín (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
poitín (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a phoitín (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an poitín (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an phoitín (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an bpoitín (definite singular)
don phoitín (definite singular)
poitín
phoitín
bpoitín

→ English: poteen

→ Yola: potteen

[pˠəˈtʲiːnʲ]

[ˈpˠɛtʲiːnʲ]


síbín

head

síbín m (genitive singular síbín, nominative plural síbíní)

síbín (genitive singular)
síbíní (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
síbín (indefinite singular)
síbíní (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a shíbín (indefinite singular)
a shíbíní (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an síbín (definite singular)
na síbíní (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an tsíbín (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an síbín (definite singular)
don síbín (definite singular)
leis na síbíní (definite plural)
síbín
shíbín
tsíbín

desctree

→ English: shebeen
→ Afrikaans: sjebeen
→ Xhosa: ishibhini

[ʃiːˈbʲiːnʲ]

[ˈʃiːbʲiːnʲ]

From séibe (“mugful”) + -ín (diminutive).


old-fashioned

From old + fashioned. The cocktail (which goes back to at least the early 1800s) got its name in the late 1800s as more complicated cocktails became common and those who preferred simpler drinks began asking for old-fashioned cocktails.

Old John was mixing Old Fashioneds and every now and then he would turn and stare at the record case with an expression of great loathing.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 43:

Bond took a shower and changed and walked down the road and had two Bourbon old-fashioneds and the Chicken Dinner at $2.80 in the air-conditioned eating house on the corner that was as typical of ‘the American way of life’ as the motel.

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:

At the end of the workday, the Trumans liked to have a cocktail before dinner. Shortly after they moved into the White House, Mrs. Truman rang for the butler, Alonzo Fields, one afternoon and ordered two old-fashioneds.

1996, Paul F. Boller, Presidential Anecdotes, page 286:

A cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, served with a twist of citrus rind.


ovule

From Latin ōvum (“egg”) + -ule (diminutive suffix).

af

Marvin avait avalé 1 kilo de poudre blanche, soit 105 petits ovules plastifiés.


candy flipping

Pretty Lights blasts from invisible speakers, making Lion think about candyflipping back in high school.

2019, Steven Kotler, Last Tango in Cyberspace, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

(slang) The experience of combining the drugs LSD and MDMA.


pseudoephedrine

en-noun

pseudoephedrine (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoephedrines)

(pharmacology) A sympathomimetic alkaloid commonly used as a decongestant; a chemical compound, an isomer of ephedrine, with the formula C₁₀H₁₅NO.


manhattan

Alternative spelling of Manhattan (“cocktail”).


wasted

en-adj

wasted (comparative more wasted, superlative most wasted)

more wasted (comparative)
most wasted (superlative)

(medicine) Low weight-for-height (for a person).


IR

en-noun

IR (countable and uncountable, plural IRs)

(pharmacology) Initialism of immediate release.


varietal

/vəˈɹaɪətəl/

An assessment of a selection of regional, varietal, and slang dictionaries also found that little lexicographical effort has been extended to these terms.

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2:

(linguistics) Of or relating to a variety of a language.


albumin

albumin (countable and uncountable, plural albumins)

Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare albumen.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.


vintage

Unadapted borrowing from English vintage.

ubor

vintage (wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin)


bas

basowy (adjective)
bas (nominative singular)
basy (nominative plural)
basu (genitive singular)
basów (genitive plural)
basowi (dative singular)
basom (dative plural)
bas (accusative singular)
basy (accusative plural)
basem (instrumental singular)
basami (instrumental plural)
basie (locative singular)
basach (locative plural)
basie (singular vocative)
basy (plural vocative)

Possibly borrowed from Italian basso, or from French basse or German Bass, ultimately from Latin bassus. Compare Slovincian bas.


威士忌酒

ㄨㄟ ㄕˋ ㄐㄧˋ ㄐㄧㄡˇ

/weɪ̯⁵⁵ ʂʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/wɐi̯⁵⁵ siː²² kei̯²²⁻³⁵ t͡sɐu̯³⁵/

/wɐi̯⁵⁵ siː²² kei̯²²⁻³⁵ t͡sɐu̯³⁵/


birra

→ Arabic: بيرة (bīra)

→ Egyptian Arabic: بيرة (bīra)

→ Moroccan Arabic: بيرة (bīrra)

→ Cimbrian: bira

→ Greek: μπίρα (bíra)

→ Maltese: birra

→ Portuguese: birra

→ Spanish: birra

→ Ottoman Turkish: بیرا (bira)

Turkish: bira

→ Armenian: պիրա (pira)

→ Venetan: bira

→ Cimbrian: biira

Mi piace la birra.


birra

la-noun

birra f (genitive birrae); first declension

birrae (genitive)
birra (nominative singular)
birrae (nominative plural)
birrae (genitive singular)
birrārum (genitive plural)
birrae (dative singular)
birrīs (dative plural)
birram (accusative singular)
birrās (accusative plural)
birrā (ablative singular)
birrīs (ablative plural)
birra (singular vocative)
birrae (plural vocative)

1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 87, pages 320–322:

1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 153.5, pages 524–525:


whiz

en-noun

whiz (countable and uncountable, plural whizzes)

And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / But that's okay cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz

1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp:


wineskin

Coordinate term: waterskin

A bag, traditionally made from the skin of a goat (a goatskin), used for holding and dispensing wine.


G&T

The cocktail in Britain is a rigidly-defined social institution: each has its own particular meaning—the G & T is the alcoholic equivalent of the interview suit; Pernod and black is an alternative to glue sniffing for repentant trendies, etc.

2011, Mark Polonsky et al., USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, page 32:


nitrous oxide

(inorganic chemistry) A non-flammable gas (N₂O) commonly used in surgery and dentistry for its anaesthetic and analgesic effects and in motorsport for bursts of added power.


chemist

First attested 1562, borrowed from French chimiste, from Medieval Latin chimista, from earlier alchimista (literally “alchemist”), from Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from article al- + Ancient Greek χυμεία (khumeía, “art of alloying metals”), from χύμα (khúma, “fluid”), from χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “I pour”). As a synonym for pharmacy, a metonymous use of the proprietor to stand for their shop.

der

الْكِيمِيَاء

Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)

(chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) Synonym of pharmacy, especially as a standalone shop or general store.


wassail

en-noun

wassail (countable and uncountable, plural wassails)

→ Welsh: gwasael

From Middle English wassail, from Old Norse ves heill (“be healthy!”), from the imperative of vesa (“to be”) + heill (“healthy”). The earliest documented use of the term is from the first part of the 12th century CE, in Geoffroy of Monmounth's Historia Regum Britanniae (see page's citations).

In merry wassail he […] peals his loud song.

1813, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in Rokeby; a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or John Ballantyne and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC:

The victors abandoned themselves to feasting and wassail.

1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

A blinding light against a garish blue sky made vision difficult, thanks to the previous night's wassail.

1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the Last Laugh, page 39:


mudslide

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-mudslide.wav

[…] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 997:

A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.


Black Russian

en-adj

Black Russian (comparative more Black Russian, superlative most Black Russian)

more Black Russian (comparative)
most Black Russian (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Black Russian.wav


tawny

en-noun

tawny (countable and uncountable, plural tawnies or tawnys)

From Middle English tauni, tawne (“brownish-orange colour; cloth of this colour; sweet beverage of this colour”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman tawné, and Old French tané, tanné, tanney (“tan colour; cloth of this colour”), from tané (verb): see further at etymology 1.
Sense 2.1 (“Eurasian bullfinch”) is due to the brown colour of the female.

kellanruskea

something of a light brown or brownish orange colour

Tawny is the most versatile Port style. The best tawnies are good-quality wines that have faded to a pale garnet or brownish red color during long wood aging. […] We consider 10- and 20-year-old tawnies the best buys; the older ones aren't always worth the extra bucks.

2006, Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan, “Wine Roads Less Traveled: Fortified and Dessert Wines”, in Wine for Dummies (For Dummies), 4th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part V (Wine’s Exotic Face), page 297:

A ten-year-old tawny is a good place to start with a tawny port novice, who might otherwise be put off by the oxidized flavors (i.e., more wood and earth notes than fruit) that come with a very old tawny.

2007, Lettie Teague, “Portugal”, in Educating Peter: How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anyone Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert, New York, N.Y., London: Scribner, →ISBN, page 110:

(alcoholic beverages) In full tawny port: a sweet, fortified port wine which is blended and matured in wooden casks.


jorum

Uncertain; perhaps from the Hebrew name of Joram, who “brought with him [to King David] vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass” (Bible (King James Version), 2 Samuel 8:10; compare Jeroboam); or from Arabic جَرَّة (jarra, “earthen receptacle”).

derived

Then come, put the jorum about, / And let us be merry and clever, / Our hearts and our liquors are stout, / Here's the Three Jolly Pigeons for ever.

1773 (first performance), Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer; or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy, by Dr. Goldsmith. Adapted for Theatrical Representation, as Performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden. Regulated from the Prompt-books, by Permission of the Managers. “The lines distinguished by inverted commas, are omitted in the representation.”, London: Printed for the proprietors, under the direction of John Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, published 1791, OCLC 645786039, Act I, scene ii; republished in Bell's British Theatre. Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, volume IX, London: Printed for, and under the direction of, George Cawthorn, British Library, Strand, 1797, OCLC 472479652, page 19

Come each jolly fellow / That loves to be mellow, / Attend unto me, and sit easy: / One jorum in quiet, / My boys, we will try it, / Dull thinking will make a man crazy: […] / I am here as Justice of Quorum; / And in my cabin's fore end, / I've a bed for a friend, / With a clean fire-side and a jorum.

1820, “The Farmer”, in The Harp of Orpheus; Being a Collection of the Best English, Scotch, and Irish Songs, Catches, Glees, Duets, Trios, Quartettos, &c. &c. Also, a Selection of Toasts and Sentiments, Derby, Derbyshire: Printed by and for H. Mozley, Brook-Street, →OCLC, page 212:

In battle one day, with a jorum of flip, / Jack, while crossing the deck, began reeling, / And fell, for his leg was shot off at the hip, / But the liquor he just saved from spilling.

1841, C[harles] Dibdin, Jun., “All in His Glory”, in Charles Dibdin; Thomas [John] Dibdin, Songs, Naval and National, of the Late Charles Dibdin; with a Memoir and Addenda. Collected and Arranged by Thomas Dibdin, Author of “The English Fleet,” “Cabinet,” &c. &c. With Characteristic Sketches by George Cruikshank, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. (Publisher to the Admiralty.), OCLC 558164904, page 268

They ketched hould of aich other, gasping as he stepped down out of the air to the ground, an' wishin' them the top of the avening, he brushed past, walked bould to the bar an' briskly called for three jorums of whusky.

1901–1902, Herminie Templeton [Kavanagh], Darby O'Gill and the Good People, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips, published 1903, →OCLC, page 286:

You see, at that time, in the Duchy of Brunswick, or Braunschweig, now part of Germany, it was the custom for friendly groups to drink from the same receptacle, in this case a jorum, or basin—a good idea, rightly understood, in that it made for communitas, or community, […]

1988, J[ames] F[arl] Powers, “Priestly Fellowship”, in Wheat that Springeth Green, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0-394-49609-2; republished New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0-940322-24-0, page 175

A large vessel for drinking (usually alcoholic beverages).


remedy

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”). Doublet of remeid.

(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

сре́дство

суде́бной защи́ты


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

Take two pills every hour in the apyrexia of intermittent fever, until eight are taken.

1864, Benjamin Ellis, The Medical Formulary:

(broadly) A small, usually round or cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Coordinate term: capsule

en:any tablet or caplet, thus excluding capsules

(strictly) Such an object that is of solid constitution (usually of compressed, bonded powder) rather than a capsule (with a shell containing loose powder or liquid).

Jane went on the pill when she left for college.

She got pregnant one month after going off the pill.

I'm tearing down your brooder house / 'Cause now I've got the pill

1975, “The Pill”, in Back to the Country, performed by Loretta Lynn:

Many specialists are requesting that this vitamin be included in all contraceptive pills, as women on the pill have a tendency to be depressed.

1986, Jurriaan Plesman, Getting Off the Hook: Treatment of Drug Addiction and Social Disorders Through Body and Mind:

(informal, uncountable, definite, i.e. used with "the") Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

One sleeve, threadbare and loaded with what my mother called “sweater pills,” hung halfway to the floor.

1999, Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True:

(textile) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile fabric by rubbing. Colloquially known as a bobble, fuzzball, or lint ball.


pill

en-verb

pill (third-person singular simple present pills, present participle pilling, simple past and past participle pilled)

pills (present singular third-person)
pilling (participle present)
pilled (participle past)
pilled (past)

She pills herself with all sorts of herbal medicines.

Pilling the cat is such a nightmare.

(transitive) To medicate with pills; to administer pills to.


lek

lekowy (adjective)
lek (nominative singular)
leki (nominative plural)
leku (genitive singular)
leków (genitive plural)
lekowi (dative singular)
lekom (dative plural)
lek (accusative singular)
leki (accusative plural)
lekiem (instrumental singular)
lekami (instrumental plural)
leku (locative singular)
lekach (locative plural)
leku (singular vocative)
leki (plural vocative)

(medicine) medicine, drug (substance which promotes healing)


tablet

id-noun

tablèt (first-person possessive tabletku, second-person possessive tabletmu, third-person possessive tabletnya)

tablèt (canonical)
tabletku (first-person possessive)
tabletmu (possessive second-person)
tabletnya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch tablet, from Middle French tablette, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”), from Latin tabula. Doublet of tabel.
* Semantic loan from English tablet for tablet computer sense.

(medicine, pharmacy) a pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance.


tablet

English: tablet

Scots: taiblet

From Old French tablete; equivalent to table + -et.


mescaline

en-noun

mescaline (usually uncountable, plural mescalines)

Lophophora williamsii
Lophophora williamsii#Translingual

(biochemistry) A hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound present in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), and the Peruvian torch (Echinopsis peruviana).


coffee liqueur

A liqueur with coffee, such as Tia Maria or Kahlua


самогон

ru-noun+

самого́н • (samogón) m inan (genitive самого́на, nominative plural самого́ны, genitive plural самого́нов, relational adjective самого́нный)

самого́н (canonical)
samogón (romanization)
самого́на (genitive)
самого́ны (nominative plural)
самого́нов (genitive plural)
самого́нный (adjective relational)
самого́н (nominative singular)
самого́ны (nominative plural)
самого́на (genitive singular)
самого́нов (genitive plural)
самого́ну (dative singular)
самого́нам (dative plural)
самого́н (accusative singular)
самого́ны (accusative plural)
самого́ном (instrumental singular)
самого́нами (instrumental plural)
самого́не (prepositional singular)
самого́нах (plural prepositional)
самого́ну (partitive singular)

сам (sam, “self”) + -о- (-o-) + гон (gon, “distill”), from гнать (gnatʹ, “to distill”).


tabulate

From table + -ate; compare Late Latin tabulātus (“having a floor; floored”), perfect passive participle of tabulō (“to fit with planks”) + -ātus (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos (suffix forming adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or a quality). Tabulō is derived from tabula (“board, plank”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (a variant of *steh₂- (“to stand”)) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting tools or instruments)).

der

℞. the three kindes of ſaunders, and Diarrhodon Abbatis, ana. ℈. j. the bone of the Hartes heart one in number, ſugar roſate tabulate, or white ſugar diſſolued in roſe water as much as ſufficeth, make an Electuarie, gild it with leaues of pure golde in weight ℥. ß.

1596, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Electuaries, and Conserues: of Lozenges, and Manus Christi”, in The Method of Phisick, Containing the Cavses, Signes, and Cvres of Inward Diseases in Mans Body, from the Head to the Foote. Whereunto is Added, The Forme and Rule of Making Remedies and Medicines, which Our Physitions Commonly Vse at this Day, with the Proportion, Quantitie, and Names of Each Medicine, 3rd corrected and augmented edition, book VII, Imprinted at London: By Richard Field, and are to be sold in Paules Church yard at the signe of the brasen Serpent, →OCLC, pages 404–405:

A Bad ſtomacke is otherwhiles no ſmall cauſe of this ſwouning, for it procureth before the ſwouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie. As ſoone as this ſhall be perceiued, it is not amiſſe to vſe for it confected Balſam wood, but in the ſtead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe, which are very requiſite for it.

1605, Christopher Wirtzung [i.e. Christof Wirsung], “Of the Hart, the Most Precious Part of Mans Body”, in Jacob Mosan, transl., The General Practise of Physicke: Conteyning All Inward and Outward Parts of the Body, with All the Accidents and Infirmities that are Incident vnto Them, euen from the Crowne of the Head to the Sole of the Foote: … in the Germane Tongue, and now Translated into English, in Diuerse Places Corrected, and with Many Additions Illustrated and Augmented, …, London: [Printed by Richard Field] Impensis [at the expense of] Georg[e] Bishop, →OCLC, § 1 (Of the Fainting of the Hart in Generall. [The Order of Life or Diet for This Faintnes of the Hart.]), page 259:

For all faintness, hot agues, heavy fantasies and imaginations, a cordial was prepared in tabulates, which was called Manus Christi: the true receipt required one ounce of prepared pearls to twelve of fine sugar, boiled with rose water, violet water, cinnamon water, "or howsoever one would have them."

1834, [Robert Southey], “Quack and No Quack, being an Account of Dr. Green and His Man Kemp. Popular Medicine, Herbary, Theory of Signatures, William Dove, John Wesley, and Baxter.”, in The Doctor, &c., volume I, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, →OCLC, page 236:


OD

en-noun

OD (countable and uncountable, plural ODs)


overdose

en-verb

overdose (third-person singular simple present overdoses, present participle overdosing, simple past and past participle overdosed)

overdoses (present singular third-person)
overdosing (participle present)
overdosed (participle past)
overdosed (past)

/ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdəʊs/

(transitive) To dose to excess; to give an overdose, or too many doses, to someone.


overdose

(medicine) overdose (excessive and dangerous dose of a drug)


paloma

Martini, Bellini, Negroni, Baileys, Kahlúa, sambuca
Soju, paloma, mojito, gimlet, Frangelico, Guinness
Tequila, Manhattan, a margarita, old-fashioned
Dry vermouth and something I can't taste 'cause I'm so trashed

2020, Yoav Landau, Sam Haft (lyrics and music), “Drunk”, in zero_one, performed by The Living Tombstone:

A cocktail made with tequila, lime juice, and grapefruit soda.


API

(pharmacology) Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.


urna

From Latin urna, usually derived from ūrō (“to burn, to singe”) in reference to the firing of the clay in their creation. Doublet of urn.

A wine vessel, probably the Roman urna, which contained half the quantity of the amphora.

1810, A Description of the Collection of Ancient Terracottas of the British Museum, British Museum, No. XXXIX, page 22:

The congius was the 8th part of the amphora, and the 4th of the urna: it contained 6 sextarii.

1847, Francis Adams, The Seven Books of Paulus Ægeineta, volume 3, The Sydenham Society, page 623:

It follows that the seah must equal the urna, and the hin equal 2 Attic choes.

1903, Sir Charles Warren, The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures, page 89:

(historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 40 Roman pounds of wine and equivalent to about 13 L although differing slightly over time.