See fusel oil on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for fusel oil meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Fusel"
},
"expansion": "German Fusel",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The word \"fusel\" comes from German Fusel, which is used to refer to low-quality alcoholic beverages in general, especially to inferior wines and spirits distilled with inadequate equipment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fusel oils",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fusel oil (plural fusel oils)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 11, in Goldfinger",
"text": "As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 849",
"text": "many simply blamed […] the Doosra's known enthusiasms for opium, ganja, and any number of local fusel oils, singly or combined, named and nameless.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mixture of several higher-order alcohols (alcohols with more than two carbon atoms) formed as byproduct in the normal fermentation process. An excessive concentration, as in low-quality moonshine, causes unpleasant taste."
],
"id": "en-fusel_oil-en-noun-r4NdVx8J",
"links": [
[
"alcohols",
"alcohol"
],
[
"byproduct",
"byproduct"
],
[
"fermentation",
"fermentation"
],
[
"moonshine",
"moonshine"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fusel alcohol"
},
{
"word": "potato oil"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "foezelolie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"word": "sikunaöljy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fuzel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niedogon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sivúšnoje máslo",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сиву́шное ма́сло"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aceite de fusel"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "finkelolja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "finkel"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Fusel alcohol"
]
}
],
"word": "fusel oil"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "de",
"3": "Fusel"
},
"expansion": "German Fusel",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "The word \"fusel\" comes from German Fusel, which is used to refer to low-quality alcoholic beverages in general, especially to inferior wines and spirits distilled with inadequate equipment.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "fusel oils",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "fusel oil (plural fusel oils)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from German",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 11, in Goldfinger",
"text": "As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 849",
"text": "many simply blamed […] the Doosra's known enthusiasms for opium, ganja, and any number of local fusel oils, singly or combined, named and nameless.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A mixture of several higher-order alcohols (alcohols with more than two carbon atoms) formed as byproduct in the normal fermentation process. An excessive concentration, as in low-quality moonshine, causes unpleasant taste."
],
"links": [
[
"alcohols",
"alcohol"
],
[
"byproduct",
"byproduct"
],
[
"fermentation",
"fermentation"
],
[
"moonshine",
"moonshine"
]
],
"wikipedia": [
"Fusel alcohol"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "fusel alcohol"
},
{
"word": "potato oil"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "foezelolie"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"word": "sikunaöljy"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fuzel"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "niedogon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sivúšnoje máslo",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сиву́шное ма́сло"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aceite de fusel"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "finkelolja"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "byproduct of alcoholic fermentation",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "finkel"
}
],
"word": "fusel oil"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.