edible

From Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edō (“eat”).

A foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter or other marijuana.


grass

en-noun

grass (countable and uncountable, plural grasses)

Tok Pisin: gras, garas

Fiji Hindi: giraas

New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore

From Middle English gras, from Old English græs, from Proto-Germanic *grasą (“grass”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- (“to grow”).
cognates
Cognate with Scots girs, gers, gress (“grass”), North Frisian gäärs, geers (“grass”), Saterland Frisian Gäärs (“grass”), West Frisian gers (“grass”), Low German Gras (“grass”), Dutch gras (“grass, turf, pasture”), German Gras (“grass, weed”), Danish græs (“grass”), Swedish gräs (“grass”), Norwegian Bokmål gress (“grass”), Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk gras (“grass”), Latin herba (“plant, weed, grass”), Albanian grath (“grass blade, spike”). Related to grow, green.
The "informer" sense is probably a shortening of grasshopper (“police officer, informant”), rhyming slang for copper (“police officer”) or shopper (“informant”); the exact sequence of derivation is unclear.

inh

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

the grass is always greener on the other side of the road

Thou turnest man to destruction: and sayest, Returne yee children of men. / For a thousand yeeres in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past: and as a watch in the night. / Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a sleepe: in the morning they are like grasse which groweth vp. / In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth vp: in the euening it is cut downe, and withereth.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 90:3–6:

The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.

a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

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

(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

Jojo left his home in Tucson, Arizona / For some California grass

1970, Paul McCartney (lyrics and music), “Get Back”, in Let It Be, performed by The Beatles:

(uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

'Have ready a hundred of ſmall graſs boiled, then ſave tops enough to ſtick the rolls with, the reſt cut ſmall and put into the cream, fill the loaves with them.'

1769, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, 9th edition, page 195:

(countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".


grass

en-verb

grass (third-person singular simple present grasses, present participle grassing, simple past and past participle grassed)

grasses (present singular third-person)
grassing (participle present)
grassed (participle past)
grassed (past)

The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.

1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

He flew at me with his knife, and I had to grass him twice, and got a cut over the knuckles, before I had the upper hand of him.

1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 709:

(transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).


hand

From Middle English hond, hand, from Old English hand, from Proto-West Germanic *handu, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.
See also Dutch and Swedish hand (“hand”), Danish hånd, German Hand, West Frisian hân). Perhaps compare Old Swedish hinna (“to gain”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰-𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌸𐌰𐌽 (fra-hinþan, “to take captive, capture”); and Latvian sīts (“hunting spear”), Ancient Greek κεντέω (kentéō, “prick”), Albanian çandër (“pitchfork, prop”).

handvol

that which is, or may be, held in a hand at once

hand

set of cards held by a player in a card game

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

catch someone with a hand in the cookie jar

close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

give with one hand and take away with the other

one can't hold two watermelons in one hand

talk to the hand 'cause the face ain't listening

the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world

the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing

(historical) A Native American gambling game, involving guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or similar, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.


grape

en-noun

grape (countable and uncountable, plural grapes)

From Middle English grape, from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), from graper, craper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

mountain grape

Vitis rupestris; Berberis aquifolium, syn. Mahonia aquifolium

possum grape

Vitis vulpina; Vitis baileyana; Cissus spp.

racoon grape

Vitis labrusca et al.; Ampelopsis cordata

table grape

Vitis spp.; see varieties thereof at List of grape varieties

(US, slang, colloquial, African-American Vernacular) A person's head.


draw

en-noun

draw (countable and uncountable, plural draws)

From Middle English drawen, draȝen, dragen (“to drag, pull, push, draw (out), go to, make, add, etc.”), from Old English dragan, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, pull”). Doublet of drag and draught.
cognates
* Albanian dredh (“to turn, spin”)
* Danish drage
* Dutch dragen
* German tragen (“to carry”)
* Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”)
* Sanskrit ध्रजस् (dhrájas, “gliding course or motion”)
* West Frisian drage

cog

Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.

2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:

Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring.

2017, Michael Coleman, Old Skool Rave, page 139:


blow

en-noun

blow (countable and uncountable, plural blows)

From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).


wine

en-noun

wine (countable and uncountable, plural wines)

Tok Pisin: wain
→ Rotokas: uain

→ Burmese: ဝိုင် (wuing)

→ Central Melanau: wain

→ Chuukese: wain

→ Ewe: wein

→ Hawaiian: waina

→ Japanese: ワイン (wain)

→ Kannada: ವೈನ್ (vain)

→ Korean: 와인 (wain)

→ Malay: wain

→ Maori: wāina

→ Navajo: wáán

→ Tamil: வைன் (vaiṉ)

→ Thai: ไวน์ (waai)

From Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, either directly or via Latin vīnum (from Proto-Italic *wīnom) from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“wine”). Doublet of vine and vino.

خَمْر

alcoholic beverage made from other fruits, vegetables or plants

And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine.

1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:

In Europe then [1925] we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking either wine or cider or beer.

1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:

Wine is usually stronger than beer.

"Wine improves with age but I improve with wine," she slurred as she slid gracefully beneath the table.

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.

...dandelion wine, rice wine, plum wine...

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.


wine

A variant of wind with simplification of the final consonant cluster; for the vowel quality, compare find, mind, rind.

Vor voices rawze upon tha wine

1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:

Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens / When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine.

1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:


wine

en-verb

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

wines (present singular third-person)
wining (participle present)
wined (participle past)
wined (past)

From Jamaican Creole [Term?], related to wind (verb).

Even when there are positive comments, as in the responses to “white boy wines to dancehall,” the origin of the white boy's ability to dance is attributed to skills derived from others: […].

2010, Andoni Alonso, Pedro Oiarzabal, editors, Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics, and Community, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN:

(dance, intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.


currant

(hurry–furry merger, cure–fir merger) courant

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”). Cognate with Dutch krent. Doublet of Corinth.

bor

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.


loud

en-adj

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

louder (comparative)
loudest (superlative)

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hlūd (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlūd, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz, *hlūþaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). More at listen.
Cognates
Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian լու (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic слава (slava, “glory”), слово (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit श्रव (śráva, “glory”).

cog

Some of the loudest blubberers are developers who, having made enormous profits as a result of local, state, and federal subsidies, complain that government doesn't do enough for them.

1988 September 12, Ben Joravsky, “Property-tax assessments rise; north siders are revolting”, in Chicago Reader:

(of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.

(of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.


loud

en-noun

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

(slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.


loud

From Middle English loude, from Old English hlūde (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūda, *hlūdô (“loudly”), related to Etymology 1.

Who knocks so loud at door?

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 14, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 7, pages 71-72:

Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do.

2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


pot

Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya (“marijuana leaves”) or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”) or potación de guaya (literally “drink of grief”), supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped, from pota + de + guaya (see guayar (“to lament”)).

The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock'n'roll, there wouldn't be any more wars!

1968 July, Shel Silverstein, “Silverstein's Hippies”, in Playboy Magazine, page 189:


Prosecco

Prosecco (countable and uncountable, plural Proseccos)

From Italian Prosecco, short for (vino de) Prosecco, “(wine of) Prosecco”, near Trieste. The toponym Prosecco comes from Proto-Slavic *prosěkъ (“kind of axe; opening, cutting (in a forest)”) from the areas deforested for the cultivation of the vine.

der

‘Itʼs Prosecco, champagneʼs Italian cousin!’

2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 96:

A dry, slightly sparkling Italian white wine made from that grape.


muggle

en-noun

muggle (countable and uncountable, plural muggles)

Origin unknown; first known to have come into use in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., in the mid-1920s.

But there was a drug in New Orleans, although it took me over nine months to find out anything about it—a drug of a very different and insidious kind! [...] It looked like chopped hay, or dried clover, and was rolled up in a double brown cigarette paper. In short, a "muggles", "weed", or "mootie", cannabis indica, Indian hemp, or, to give it its Mexican name, marijuana, which translated into English just means Mary Jane!

1933, Cecil de Lenoir, “Way down South”, in The Hundredth Man: Confessions of a Drug Addict, London: Jarrolds […], →OCLC, page 220:

The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marihuana.

1963, Howard S[aul] Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, New York, N.Y.: Free Press of Glencoe; London: Collier-Macmillan, →OCLC, page 142:

While marijuana was still legal in New York, businessmen wanted to package Mezz [Mezzrow]'s muggle and turn it into a high-powered criminal enterprise. While tempted, Mezz rejected those efforts, as well.

2007, Ron Chepesiuk, “The White Mayor”, in Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood, Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, →ISBN, page 62:

(uncountable, chiefly in the plural) Marijuana.


tea

Semantic loan from Chinese 茶 (chá, “tea”).

sl

A moment, a historical unit of time from China, about the amount of time needed to quickly drink a traditional cup of tea. It is now found in Chinese-language historical fiction.


method

en-noun

method (countable and uncountable, plural methods)

From Middle French methode, from Latin methodus, from Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

mètode

(programming) subroutine or function in object-oriented languages

my very easy method just speeds up naming planets


tobacco

tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural tobaccos or tobaccoes)

Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).

der

(uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.

Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.

2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:

Nicotiana tabacum
Nicotiana tabacum#Translingual

(uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.

tabak

leaves of certain varieties of tobacco plant


herb

en-noun

herb (countable and uncountable, plural herbs)

From Middle English herbe, erbe, from Old French erbe (French herbe), from Latin herba. Initial h was restored to the spelling in the 15th century on the basis of Latin, but it remained mute until the 19th century and still is for many speakers. Doublet of yerba.

You think he's got any herb?

1995, Harmony Korine, Kids, spoken by Casper:


hooter

Suddenly, far down and beyond the toun there came a screech as the morning grew, a screech like an hungered beast in pain. The hooters were blowing in the Segget Mills.

1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, page 34:

When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.

1945 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:

A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.

1946 September and October, “Notes and News: Locomotive Whistle Gift”, in Railway Magazine, page 322:

(British) A siren or steam whistle, especially one in a factory and used to indicate the beginning or the end of a working day or shift.

G.G. understood that I meant the licence, and said he didn't care a hooter about failing his driving test.

1969, Jerzy Peterkiewicz, Green Flows the Bile, page 25:

(dated) The tiniest amount; a whit or jot.


pothead

From pot (“marijuana”) + -head. First sense appears c. 1957 in the writings of Jack Gelber. Third sense appears c. 1639.

That pothead Shane has a nasty bong.

With the exception of college campuses — where I suspect you’ll be able to find Bob Marley posters for as long as dorms exist — it feels as if the old stoner subculture, the classic pothead aesthetic, has been almost eliminated from mainstream consciousness.

2024 October 1, Erin Somers, “Cannabis Has Become Upscale Chic. I Miss the Old Red-Eyed Stoners.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(slang, derogatory) A person who smokes cannabis frequently, or to excess.


chronic

en-adj

chronic (comparative more chronic, superlative most chronic)

more chronic (comparative)
most chronic (superlative)

acute

antonym(s) of “prolonged or slow to heal”

From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

der

chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life

Peer group support is important to displaced homemakers. The Displaced Homemakers' Network has done excellent work in helping women see that their problems do not have to be chronic.

1980, Ruth Harriet Jacobs, Integrating Displaced Homemakers into the Economy, page 14:

It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Chronic mismanagement in the dugout and in the boardroom has meant the scale of the job now is as big as it has ever been.

2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:

Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

عَوِيص

Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.

Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.


chronic

en-noun

chronic (countable and uncountable, plural chronics)

Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger. She told us she was living next door with her grandmother while her mother was in jail, and she took us up to the roof to smoke some chronic.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:

(slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.


chewing

chewing (countable and uncountable, plural chewings)

From Middle English chewyng, chewynge, from Old English ċīwung, ċȳwung, ċēowung (“chewing”), equivalent to chew + -ing.

(drugs) The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.


dope

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *dōpen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijaną.
“Doop” in the sense “narcotic drug” ultimately refers to viscous opium juice, the drug of choice of the ancient Greeks; “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Sense of "stupid person" perhaps following from the drug sense (i.e. relating to those intoxicated on opium), compare dope up. Related to English dip and German taufen.

смазка

viscous liquid used to prepare a surface

If you are at all bright, don't be a grind. Grinding may make a second-hand genius of you (for all the real things are dead), and if you become a genius you will be sure to smoke dope or swallow laudanum. They all did it.

1900, “Gifford Arthur Nelson”, in The Naughty-Naughtian, page 118:

But she went her way. Not until she accompanied a girl to an opium joint to discover whether dope had the merits claimed for it as a deadener of pain and a producer of happiness—not until then did Freddie come in person.

a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:

Here's a cure for all your troubles / Here's an end to all distress / It's the old dope peddler / With his powdered happiness

1953, Tom Lehrer, “The Old Dope Peddler”, in Songs by Tom Lehrer, Pantheon, published 1981, page 18:

We watched as he got his works and squirted water out first, then stuck the tip of the needle into the dope and sucked it up before finding a vein and sticking it into his arm.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50:

(uncountable, slang) Any of various recreational substances:

Any of various recreational substances:
An opiate, now particularly heroin.

(Senator): Well good! Good! This is a fine batch of corn you have!
(Farmer): 'Taint corn. It's dope.

1981 September 26, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic):

Some people say that dope kills brain cells, but I can't figure out how they found that out. I mean, how do you tell if a brain cell is dead and how do you tell what killed it? I've probably wasted a lot more brain cells through booze than through dope.

1983 March 28, “Smokin'”, in The Breeze, James Madison University, Readers' Forum, page 19:

She had gotten pregnant while stoned, had undoubtedly decided to marry Roger Finney while stoned, and Peter knew for a fact that she had left Reed (carrying a one-point-forget-it grade average) because there was too much dope floating around and she just couldn’t say no to it.

At a suburban station, there were kids hanging around smoking dope, as ticketless entry through the exit doors is easy for them.

2024 May 29, Christian Wolmar, “The good and bad sides of the Parisian Metro”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 44:

Any of various recreational substances:
Marijuana.

(Appalachia) A soft drink. Otherwise known as soda or pop.


baccy

baccy (usually uncountable, plural baccies)

To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well as from the best of Havannahs […]

1882, Chums: A Tale of the Queen's Navy, volume 1, page 200:

No one ever see him down on his luck till this cussed fever took him, Our rations was often short, but it was share and share alike down to the last pipe o' baccy.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 168:

"I'll prove I can see you. You've got a pipe in your mouth." ¶ "Anyone that knows the smell of baccy could tell that," said Diggle.

1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 13, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:


fatty

en-adj

fatty (comparative fattier, superlative fattiest)

fattier (comparative)
fattiest (superlative)

From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).

fatty tissues

fatty meats

Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.

1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 14”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.

fatty liver

fatty pancreas

That means eating fruits and vegetables and cutting back on fatty foods.

2002, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - June 22:

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.


fatty

We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing.

2004, Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue:

(slang) A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.


vineyard

Equivalent to vine + yard; from Middle English vyneȝerd (circa 1300), following earlier Old English wīnġeard (“wine yard, vine yard”), with vine (from Old French vigne (“vine, vineyard”), from Latin vīnea) replacing native Old English wīn (“wine, vine”). The earlier wīnġeard may have had the sense of “vine” already, with /w/ → /v/ facilitated by common v-/w- interchange. Compare Dutch wijngaard (literally “wine garden”) and German Weingarten alongside contracted Wingert. (Dutch gaard, German Garten are cognate to English yard.)

cog

The vineyard of Château Margaux stands as the producer of one of the world's greatest and most sought-after red wines.

A grape plantation, especially one used in the production of wine.


shatter

en-noun

shatter (countable and uncountable, plural shatters)

From Middle English schateren (“to scatter, dash”), an assibilated form of Middle English scateren ("to scatter"; see scatter), from Old English scaterian, from Proto-Germanic *skat- (“to smash, scatter”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Cognate with Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”), Low German schateren, Albanian shkatërroj (“to destroy, devastate”). Doublet of scatter.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(uncountable, slang) A form of concentrated cannabis.


zombie

First attested in 1871.
From a Bantu language. Compare Kongo nzambi (“god”), zumbi (“fetish”), and Kimbundu nzumbi (“ghost”) (see Portuguese zumbi), and Caribbean folklore's jumbee (“a spirit or demon”).
Origin from Spanish sombra (“shadow, phantom”) has also been suggested.
May have come through Louisiana Creole [Term?]. See also French zombi (1832).

Traveling in a fried-out Kombi / On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

1980, Colin Hay, Ron Strykert (lyrics and music), “Down Under”, performed by Men at Work:

(Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.


vine

From Middle English vīne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.

ivy vine

Ampelopsis cordata; Parthenocissus quinquefolia


grapevine

en-noun

grapevine (plural grapevine or grapevines)

Although many grape vines have geographical names, those rarely reflect their real origin, if known at all.

The plant, a vine of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow.

A dance figure in partner dancing that includes sidesteps and steps across the support foot. See Grapevine (dance move).


grapevine

en-verb

grapevine (third-person singular simple present grapevines, present participle grapevining, simple past and past participle grapevined)

grapevines (present singular third-person)
grapevining (participle present)
grapevined (participle past)
grapevined (past)

Up on the stage, the dancers twirled and whirled in time to the music and then grapevined across the broad expanse and exited stage left.

2013, S.C. Rackes, Cast a Dark Shadow, page 25:

The underwear-baker grapevined down the length of the display and grabbed a to-go box from the stack on top of it.

When the room grapevined left, I grapevined right, causing a head-on collision with the lady next to me.

2023, Betsy Schow, Finished Being Fat: An Accidental Adventure in Losing Weight:

To move one's body in a smooth undulating wave while stepping in the direction the wave is moving.


toke

Presumably from Spanish tocar (“touch”). Noun sense 1968, verb 1952.

The artist took a thoughtful toke off the joint, then passed it along.

Back on the wards a big toke of O₂ might have done the job; it was God's own pick-me-up.

(slang, by extension) An inhalation or lungful of anything.


toke

toke (third-person singular simple present tokes, present participle toking, simple past and past participle toked)

tokes (present singular third-person)
toking (participle present)
toked (participle past)
toked (past)

Let's roll up a doobie and toke.

This keeps Doc’s workload relatively light, freeing him to stay stoned around the clock and live in the now, which isn’t hard for him, because he’s toked away his short-term memory.

2009 August 23, Walter Kirn, “Drugs to Do, Cases to Solve”, in New York Times:


aciniform

en-adj

aciniform (comparative more aciniform, superlative most aciniform)

more aciniform (comparative)
most aciniform (superlative)

Latin acinus (“grape, grapestone”) + -form. Compare French aciniforme.


bud

en-noun

bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte (“hip, rosehip”), regional German Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?

(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.

(US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.


cannabis

cannabis (countable and uncountable, plural cannabises)

→ Irish: cannabas

→ Welsh: canabis

Borrowed from Latin cannabis (“hemp”), from Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis). See there for more. Doublet of canvas and hemp.

Cannabis sativa
Cannabis sativa#Translingual

A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis, especially Cannabis sativa), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.


marijuana

marijuana (usually uncountable, plural marijuanas)

→ Italian: marijuana

/ˌmɛɹɪˈwɑ.nə/

/ˌmæɹɪˈwɑː.nə/

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish marihuana, from mariguana. First attested in 1874 in the publications of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Altered by influence of a folk etymology involving the proper name María Juana (“Mary Jane”).

After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.

You could smell tea, weed, I mean marijuana, floating in the air, together with the chili beans and beer.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:

Exactly. Marijuana is something we just all gradually decided is okay, like Mark Wahlberg as a serious actor. “You know what? Sure, I’ve decided I’m fine with that.”

2017 April 2, “Marijuana”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 7, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

The inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.


joint

The noun is from Middle English joynt (attested since the late 13th century), from Old French joint (“joint of the body”) (attested since the 12th century). The adjective (attested since the 15th century) is from Old French jointiz. Both Old French words are from Latin iūnctus, the past participle of iungō. See also join, jugular.
The meaning of "building, establishment", especially in connection with shady activities, appeared in Anglo-Irish by 1821 and entered general American English slang by 1877, especially in the sense of "opium den". The sense "marijuana cigarette" is attested since 1935. The development to meaning "any thing" also happened to the Scots and Memphian form junt and the Mid-Atlantic/Philadelphian form jawn.

verbinding

point of a rigid joint, means of joining in carpentry

en:place of business or human activity
en:opium den

(chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).


bong

(ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.


concord

concord (countable and uncountable, plural concords)

From French concorde, Latin concordia, from concors (“of the same mind, agreeing”); con- + cor, cordis (“heart”). See heart, and compare accord.

(grammar) Agreement of words with one another, in gender, number, person, or case.

The concord or agreement may be made of an estate and fee-simple, fee-tail, or life or for years; it may be also of divers remainders, and that to them that are no parties but strangers to the fine; it may be also single or double, with a render back again of some estate of the same land or some rent out of it; so a concord may have in it reservation of rent, a clause of distress or nomine poenae and a warranty.

1792, Edward Wood, John Joseph Powell, A Complete Body of Conveyancing: In Theory and Practice, page 548:

And in all these, and such like cases, as before, where the concord is not formal, the judges ought not to receive the fine nor suffer it to pass; but if they do, and the fine be finished, it cannot afterwards be avoided by writ of error, or otherwise, for these faults.

1808, William Sheppard, The Touchstone of Common Assurances:

This concord was the foundation or substance of the fine; being, in form and in fact, the grant or conveyance intended to be given, and was acknowledged either openly in court, or before one of the judges, or before two or more commissioners empowered by a special authority. With this acknowledgment, all the essential parts of the fine were completed.

1850, Alexander Mansfield Burrill, A New Law Dictionary and Glossary, page 492:

The foot of a fine was a copy of an agreement ( the final concord ) reached in a court of law, usually the Court of Common Pleas, following a dispute over land ownership.

1994, The Local Historian - Volumes 24-25, page 66:

(law, obsolete) An agreement between the parties to a fine of land in reference to the manner in which it should pass, being an acknowledgment that the land in question belonged to the complainant. See fine.


concord

After Concord, Massachusetts, where the variety was developed.

A variety of sweet American grape, with large dark blue (almost black) grapes in compact clusters; a Concord grape.


burley

burley (countable and uncountable, plural burleys)

Unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.

The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley

1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59:

(US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.

Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.

2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania:

(Australia) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.


blunt

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to doze”) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).


chaw

en-noun

chaw (countable and uncountable, plural chaws)

From Middle English chawen, an unexplained variation of chewen (“to chew”). See chew for more. Cognate with Middle Dutch cauwen ("to chew"; whence Dutch kauwen), obsolete Dutch kauw (“the act of chewing, that which is chewed, chewed mass, wad of tobacco”), Middle Low German kauwen, kauen (“to chew”). Compare also Old English ġecow (“that which is chewed, food”) and *ġeċēow (“chewing”), whence Middle English icheu (“gnawing, biting”).

gl

"to chew"; whence Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">kauwen</i>

cog

When the doctor told him to quit smoking, Harvey switched to chaw, but then developed cancer of the mouth.

"YOU give him a chaw, did you? So did your sister's cat's grandmother. You pay me back the chaws you've awready borry'd off'n me, Lafe Buckner, then I'll loan you one or two ton of it, and won't charge you no back intrust, nuther."

1889, Mark Twain, chapter 21, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:

He […] went into the store and behind the counter and reached up and got the plug of chewing tobacco and unwrapped it and bit off a chaw.

(Appalachia, informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.


hogger

(curling) A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play.


boo

Of unknown origin. First appears c. 1959 in Esquire Magazine.

[…] sexually promiscuous girl who smoked boo all day and socialized with junkies when she wasn't busy banging away in bed […]

1967, George E. Andrews, Simon Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp, page 213:

Like I have smoked boo, drunk whiskey, and shot dope, and I was going through all three bags at once.

1984, Raphael S. Ezekiel, Voices from the corner: poverty and racism in the inner city, page 56:

Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).

2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:


rondo

en-noun

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. Doublet of rondeau.

(music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

(countable) A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.

And four years after Pep from Catalonia first clapped eyes on Phil from Stockport across a crowded rondo, here finally was the consummation.

2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:

(soccer) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other smaller group tries to take possession of the ball.

(obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.


reefer

reefer (countable and uncountable, plural reefers)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Mexican Spanish grifa (“cannabis”) or Central American Spanish grifo (“someone who smokes cannabis”).

Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.

1982, Edward G. Fletcher, Melle Mel (lyrics and music), “The Message”, in The Message, performed by Grandmaster Flash:

As time went on and I smoked more reefer, I began to spend more time with other dope smokers, reminiscing on how good the sixties were, rather than actually participating in the current political movements.

1984 April 7, N.B., “Chemical Dependency in the Gay Community”, in Gay Community News, page 5:


weed

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.

And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.

2015 March 14, Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the 2015 Gridiron Dinner:

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.


spiff

en-adj

spiff (comparative more spiff, superlative most spiff)

more spiff (comparative)
most spiff (superlative)

Unknown. See etymology discussion at spiffy.

“Hah spiff he is to dāay!—he mud be bown tul a wedding!”
“He’s spiff eniff for’t!”

[1862, C. Clough Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighborhood, page 418:

Thah is spiff i’ thy new coit.

[1865, William Stott Banks, A List of Provincial Words in Use at Wakefield in Yorkshire, page 67:

(archaic or regional, Yorkshire) Neat, smartly dressed, attractive.


raisin

en-verb

raisin (third-person singular simple present raisins, present participle raisining, simple past and past participle raisined)

raisins (present singular third-person)
raisining (participle present)
raisined (participle past)
raisined (past)

From Middle English raysyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman reysin (“grape, raisin”), from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Possibly a distant cognate of Persian رز (raz, “vine”). Doublet of raceme.

Second-crop fruit tends to show smaller clusters than first-crop, to have a high skin-to-juice ratio, and to be a good blending tool, according to Iantosca, although care must be exercised to ensure that the second-crop berries have not raisined.

2008, John Winthrop Haeger, Pacific Pinot Noir:

The ultraripe grapes are usually dried in the sun for a few days so they can raisin and their sugars can be concentrated before they are crushed and pressed.

2010, Michael Gibson, The Sommelier Prep Course, page 214:

Too much water and the taste would be too thin. Too little and the grapes would raisin.

2019, Sinclair Jayne, A Bride for the Texas Cowboy:

(intransitive) Of fruit: to dry out; to become like raisins.

We must have put down about thirty quart bottles, richly raisined and tightly corked.

2005, Alan King, Matzo Balls for Breakfast, page 183:

The 12-year-old Redbreast is the most easily found and shows single pot still at its most defiant: oily and rich with stewed plums, light leather, creme caramel and a dense, raisined palate where the tongue tries to cleave through the white peaches.

Another liquid—perhaps honey, a berry juice, a raisined or herbal wine—could be poured into the large opening and automatically fed into the interior of the vessel.

2019, Patrick E. McGovern, Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture, page 177:

(transitive) To flavor (an alcoholic beverage) with fruit that has raisined.

She was a bony woman with hollow cheeks, her skin raisined by years of hard labor in the sun.

2012, Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth, page 18:

Before him, a stoic mother, hands raisined from the scrubbing of clothing and children.

2016, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume Two: Empire Decayed, page 67:

As her fingers became raisined by the soap suds, she wondered what Eliza was up to.

2019, A. S. Kingly, If Stilettos Could Speak:

We soaked together in long baths until we raisined, skin pressed to skin .

She remained under the spray until the hot water heater ran out and her skin raisined.

He can barely imagine it, but years and years from now, the day will come when his skin will have raisined, and even something as simple as sweeping the floor will no longer be easy.

2023, Karin Lin-Greenberg, You Are Here:

(intransitive) To form wrinkles; to become wrinkled.


stoner

From Middle English stoner, stonere, stonare, staner, equivalent to stone + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (measurement suffix).

"You're useless when you're high on catnip, you know that?" "Mewww mew?" "No I will NOT put on Dark Side of the Moon and the Wizard of Oz for you. Goddamned stoner cat."

2006, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 538: Also Some Nachos Please:


spliff

From Jamaican Creole, possibly a blend of split, referring to the ready-made wrap + whiff, referring to the smell of the smoke.

smoke a spliff

Pablo switched off the wipers and struck a match to light the spliff he had just finished building.

1992, Victor Headley, Yardie, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, published 1993, page 167:

Danny takes another toke on the spliff and then passes it over to Griff, who accepts it and draws deep on it and then points with the lit end across the room at Gwenno like some strange weatherman indicating a pocket of high pressure.

2001, Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger, New York: Thomas Dunne, published 2002, page 104:

“Well, well, well,” Ma Taffy says, sitting back and returning the spliff to her mouth. She exhales a cloud of ganja that envelops herself and the boy.

2016, Kei Miller, “Chapter 1”, in Augustown, New York: Pantheon, pages 14–15:

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Jamaica) A cannabis cigarette.


munchies

en-noun

munchies pl (normally plural, singular munchie or munchy)

We were given the first name of the host, the address of the apartment and told to bring whatever toys we wanted. Beer and munchies would be on hand.

1988 May 7, Christopher Wittke, “It Takes Two To Tango”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

(slang) Food, especially convenience snack foods.

I've got the munchies.

I got the munchies, we got the Mary Jane in the Dungeon / Just to let you niggas know in '93, that's how we coming

1993, “Player’s Ball”, performed by OutKast:

The girl, who has not been publicly identified, sold more than 300 boxes in six hours, her father told ABC 10. Boxes now sell for as much as $5 in parts of the country, so she probably raised more than $1,500. Yes, there’s money in the munchies.

2018 February 8, Daniel Victor, “A Girl Scout Sold 300 Boxes of Cookies Near a Marijuana Shop”, in New York Times:

(slang, with the definite article) Hunger, especially a craving for food as a result of cannabis or alcohol consumption.

boefkik

craving for food as a result of use of cannabis


schwag

Unknown. Possibly related to shag (“shredded tobacco”). The "marijuana" noun sense is attested since the 1980s in the United States, the adjective since the 1990s. The "trinkets or items given away" sense is a variant of swag from 19th century thieves' cant.

National pride deserves something more than a fistful of freebies from a governmental schwag bag or the wearing of any one of the staggering array of commercially available pins.

2004, Blaise Cronin, Jeremiad Jottings, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 91:

(slang) Alternative form of swag (“trinkets or promotional items given away at an event”).


THC

thermohaline circulation
thermohaline circulation#English

Abbreviation of thermohaline circulation.


brandy

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


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.


roach clip

A clip or holder, usually a 1 inch alligator clamp, used to hold the end of a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette so it can be smoked without burning the smoker's fingers.


hashish

en-noun

hashish (usually uncountable, plural hashishes)

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


vintage

en-noun

vintage (countable and uncountable, plural vintages)

From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).

der

I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes:

Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.

вино́ урожа́я

определённого го́да


winegrower

A person or company that owns a vineyard and produces wine, a vinedresser.


robe

→ Irish: róba

→ Scottish Gaelic: ròb

From Middle English robe, roobe, from Old French robe, robbe, reube (“booty, spoils of war, robe, garment”), from Frankish *rouba, *rauba (“booty, spoils, stolen clothes”, literally “things taken”), from Proto-Germanic *raubō, *raubaz, *raubą (“booty, that which is stripped or carried away”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to tear, peel”).
cognates and related terms
Akin to Old High German roup (“booty”) (Modern German Raub (“robbery, spoils”)), Old High German roubōn (“to rob, steal”) (Modern German rauben (“to rob”)), Old English rēaf (“spoils, booty, dress, armour, robe, garment”), Old English rēafian (“to steal, deprive”). Cognate with Spanish ropa (“clothing, clothes”). More at rob, reaf, reave.

cog

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furred gowns hide all.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:

A long loose outer garment, often signifying honorary stature.

A wardrobe, especially one built into a bedroom.

The largest and strongest tobacco leaves.


robe

en-verb

robe (third-person singular simple present robes, present participle robing, simple past and past participle robed)

robes (present singular third-person)
robing (participle present)
robed (participle past)
robed (past)

(intransitive) To put on official vestments.


Mary Jane

Mary Jane, you're always in my brain, and you help me ease the pain.

1995, “Mary Jane”, in Headsex, performed by Technohead, Mokum Records:

Mary Jane, since I have met you, girl, you've ruined my brain.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:


frass

Although purists object to artificial turf or ‘frass’, it finds purchase as way to save water in parched Golden State

2015 May 30, Rob Kuznia, “California turns to fake grass in response to drought”, in The Guardian:


bubbler

(US) A freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), of central North America.


Panama Red

A type of marijuana, originally from Panama.


bucket bong

A type of bong for smoking marijuana, usually consisting of a bucket or similar device for holding water, a large bottle with its bottom cut off, and a socket for holding the marijuana in the cap.


jimmy

*
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.

chocolate jimmies; rainbow jimmies

“What kind of sissy eats strawberry-frosted donuts?” I said. ¶ “With jimmies,” Belson said. ¶ “I had too much respect for you,” I said, “even to mention the jimmies.”

2009, Robert B. Parker, The Professional, Berkley Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 232:

The crispy pastry tube was overflowing with sweetened, whipped ricotta and dotted with chocolate jimmies.

2017 September 22, Suzanne Loudermilk, “Dining review: At Giovanni's, hearty Italian fare and an old-fashioned feel”, in The Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 2018-11-18:

(plural only, dialectal, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Mid-Atlantic US) Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.

Rhode Island; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Massachusetts

(US) A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.

(slang, Royal Navy) First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)


jimmy

jimmy (third-person singular simple present jimmies, present participle jimmying, simple past and past participle jimmied)

jimmies (present singular third-person)
jimmying (participle present)
jimmied (participle past)
jimmied (past)

The kitchen window had been jimmied.

(transitive, informal) To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.


doober

Can you light my doober, please?


sinsemilla

From Spanish sin semilla (literally “without seeds”).

bor

‘One day he’s Allah this, Allah that. Next minute it’s big busty blondes, Russian gymnasts and a smoke of the sinsemilla.’

2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 284:

[…] Tatum, who wears a different color Danskin every day, or Wayne, who grows sinsemilla in his actual closet, or Boomer, who's always hugging everyone since his family did EST.

2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

A form of cannabis where only the female is allowed to blossom. Without pollen from the male plant, the female blossoms produce no seeds, forming large panicled flowers.


Chardonnay

en-noun

Chardonnay (countable and uncountable, plural Chardonnays)

/ˌʃɑː(ɹ)dəˈneɪ/

French, believed to be named after the village of Chardonnay in the Mâconnais region of France, where Pouilly-Fuissé is currently produced; it is possible that the variety was first bred there
The place name Chardonnay is from Late Latin Cardonnacum, from Latin carduus (“wild thistle, artichoke”), a name from the Roman period describing the surrounding area.

der

(countable) A green-skinned grape variety used to make a white wine.


tinta

en-noun

tinta (countable and uncountable, plural tintas)


Isabella

Latinate and Italian form of Isabel. The grape cultivar is popularly thought to have been discovered by a Mrs Isabella Gibbs of South Carolina in 1816.

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

A grape cultivar popular in the former USSR derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca.


viticulture

viticulture (usually uncountable, plural viticultures)

/ˈvɪtɪˌkʌltʃə/

From viti- + culture, from Latin vītis + cultūra (“cultivation of the vine, vine-growing”). Compare agriculture.

The old French farmer practiced viticulture and raised some of the best grapes in the world.
He is knowledgeable in viticulture.

The agricultural practice of growing vines, particularly grape vines.

vneshtari

practice or science of growing vines, particularly grape vines for wine production


dugout

The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice).

2017 January 14, Roland Oliphant, “Special report: Loose cannons at the frontline of Ukraine's forgotten war”, in The Telegraph:

(military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.


nicotine

Borrowed from French nicotine, named after Jean Nicot (1530–1604), French ambassador to Portugal, who sent tobacco seeds back to France in 1561. Etymology of the surname itself is unclear.

He is addicted to nicotine.

(organic chemistry) An alkaloid (C₁₀H₁₄N₂), commonly occurring in the tobacco plant.

He's got nicotine stains on his fingers.


Gamay

Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.

2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times:

Any of several varieties of red grape used for making Beaujolais and other red wines.


toker

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker / I'm a midnight toker

1973, “The Joker”, performed by Steve Miller Band:

Before leading the coronavirus lockdown that worked and becoming New Zealand’s unifier-in-chief after the deadly shootings last year at two mosques in Christchurch, Ms. Ardern was, it seemed, like most of her constituents: a toker, at least once or twice.

2020 October 1, Damien Cave, “Jacinda Ardern Admits Past Cannabis Use. New Zealanders Shrug: ‘Us, Too.’”, in New York Times:


hotbox

One of the ex-L. & Y.R. "pugs" displaced by diesels at Bank Hall, No. 51232, is going to Preston for employment on the dock lines there, but when en route on December 31 it ran out of water and also sustained a hot box, as a result of which it was detained at Bank Hall.

1961 March, “Motive Power Miscellany”, in Trains Illustrated, page 181:

In particular, hot boxes on freight trains are a persistent problem.

1963 July, “News and Comment: Roller bearings for freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 6:

Experience with infrared hotbox detector installations has demonstrated the validity of the analysis.

1964, RSC, Railway Signaling and Communications - Volume 57, page 18:

(engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.

(rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.

You can take what you want from these two hotboxes, because I'm only going to throw them out as manure.

2006, The Memoirs of John Tomczyk, Among Unknown Hostages, page 97:

All are in need of volunteer labor to maintain enclosures and feed the animals, and each one has a wish list of items to help keep the sanctuary functioning—everything from hotboxes, jumbo-size Greenies, and canned dog food to ATVs,chain saws, and rolls of three-foot wire for dig guards and overhangs.

2011, Ceiridwen Terrill, Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs, page 205:

“Cold frames” with glass tops that could be sealed, were also called hotboxes (or hotbeds.)

2016, John L. Bisol, The House on Nichols Street, page 104:

The vines are 'bench=grafted' indoors, left for a time in hotboxes to enable the scar from the graft to heal, and then bedded out in special nurseries.

2016, Nicholas Faith, The story of champagne:

A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.


pigtail

One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.

1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 265:


tomacco

A tomato plant grafted onto a tobacco plant.


bake sale

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

We try to do our part, and whenever there is a bake sale, we try to participate.

2007, Louise Fritz, Living with Big Dogs, page 99:

Funds were also raised through LNER staff volunteering their time to participate in a range of activities, including sporting events, bake sales and raffles.

2019 November 6, “Network News”, in Rail, page 23:

A fundraising activity where baked goods are sold, with profits going to charity or some other good cause.


dub sack

(US, slang) A bag of marijuana worth twenty dollars.


dagga

dagga (countable and uncountable, plural daggas)

South Africa

Borrowed from Afrikaans dagga, from Khoekhoe daxab.

He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 217:

A few basic points, Sir. First, no unnatural Activities. Second, no Opium, no Dagga, no Ardent Spirits, no Wine, and so on.

1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 7, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 65:

(South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia) Indian hemp, Cannabis sativa subsp. indica, or a similar plant of the species Leonotis leonurus.


insangu

(South Africa) Any particular plant which is smoked as a recreational drug, especially (wild) hemp.


kif

From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).

The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.

1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco:

I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.

1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places:

The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:

[…]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 54:

‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52:

Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])

2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in edited by David Rieff, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for narcotic or intoxicating effect.

The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.

The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.


kif

en-adj

kif (comparative more kif, superlative most kif)

more kif (comparative)
most kif (superlative)


mavrodaphne

en-noun

mavrodaphne (usually uncountable, plural mavrodaphnes)

From Greek μαυροδάφνη (mavrodáfni), from Medieval Greek μαῦρος (maûros, “dark”) + δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”) (see also Daphne).

He^([Gustav Clauss]) established vineyards in the area, using local grapes, especially the “black grape of Dafne,” mavrodaphne. He created the sweet style of mavrodaphne known today.

2012, Joel Butler, Randall Heskett, Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age, page 223:

A variety of grape native to Achaea, northern Peloponnese, Greece, from which the wine is made.


ganja

ganja (usually uncountable, plural ganjas)

→ Afrikaans: ganja

→ English: gunja

→ Tiwi: kanja

→ French: ganja

→ German: Ganja

→ Italian: gangia

→ Japanese: ガンジャ (ganja)

→ Portuguese: ganja

desc

→ Serbo-Croatian: га̑нџа, gȃndža, га̏нџа, gȁndža

→ Spanish: ganya

Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800.

It must be the ganja, it's the marijuana / That's creeping up on me, why I'm so high

2009, “Must Be the Ganja”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem:

(slang, especially India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, as used for smoking.


doobie

YO! Youse guys need to turn those frowns upside down, and I got just the thing for that… we call it… DOOBIE SNACKS!

2001, Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, spoken by Jay (Jason Mewes):

In parts of the state, enjoying an occasional doobie is nowadays considered little different from sipping a Pinot Noir.

2010 October 14, “An altered state”, in The Economist:

[The] atmosphere […] was one part oxygen, four parts nitrogen, and seventeen parts doobie vapor.

2012 April 20, Dave Barry, Classic Dave Barry:


sour grapes

From Aesop's fable The Fox and the Grapes, in which a fox, unable to reach grapes it is seeking, convinces itself that they must have been unripe (therefore, sour) all along and so not worth trying for in the first place.

I think his comments about that new car are just sour grapes because he can't afford it.

Despite the egos of individual scientists, the jealousies and the sour grapes, science had worked pretty much the way it was supposed to.

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 2, in Merchants of Doubt:

His absence was a grievous setback for Liverpool, who had looked the more dangerous team until that point, and it would not be sour grapes for the losers to think that was the moment the game started to swing away from them.

2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):

(idiomatic) A putting down or expression of disdain about something that one desires but cannot have.

sure rønnebær

expression of disdain for something one cannot have


stum

en-noun

stum (countable and uncountable, plural stums)

From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.

bor

Drink ev'ry letter on't in stum,
And make it brisk champaign become.

1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras; with notes by T. R. Nash, volume 1, published 1835, Part II, Canto 1, page 265:

To each hogshead of genuine Bordeaux wine, there are four gallons of Benicarlo, half a gallon of stum wine, and a small quantity of Hermitage added, which mixture undergoes a slight fermentation, and is then exported under the name of claret.

1859, The family manual and servants' guide, 9th edition:

But stum wine was not intended for drinking.

1987, André Bustanoby, The Wrath of Grapes: Drinking and the Church Divided, →ISBN, page 36:

(obsolete) Wine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.


zinfandel

en-noun

zinfandel (countable and uncountable, plural zinfandels)

Unknown origin; wine sense used from 1896, grape sense from 1880. Possibly a transmission of German Zierfandler, a different wine grape, through a Hungarian intermediary such as czirifandli (now Cirfandli).

A small black grape from which zinfandel wine is made.


Dutch oven

Dutch (“substitute, inferior, ersatz”) + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.

(rail transport) A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.

Dutch Oven = Farting in bed & then lifting the blankets.

1996, Bart Plantenga, Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation, page 111:

a Dutch oven, most commonly a large pot heated by surrounding it with fuel, and placing hot coals on the lid, can also be a mouth. Not only that - it can also be the smell of a bed in which someone has just farted.

1996, Jonathan Green, Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice, page 191:

Oh, man! Dutch oven! Not the Dutch oven! Anything but the Dutch oven! Must find fresh air before it's too late! It's too late! It burns. Mama, it burns!

2009, Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, spoken by Theodore:

Hey Lincoln, what's more fun than a Canadian microwave? A Dutch oven!

2016 May 20, Chris Savino, “Space Invader”, in The Loud House, season 1, episode episode 15, spoken by Lynn Loud:

(slang) The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.

A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.

(slang) The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.


coffee shop

→ Dutch: coffeeshop

→ Korean: 커피숍 (keopisyop)

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

(Malaysia, Singapore) Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”)


snuff

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).
Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).

cog

en:tobacco product for sniffing or snorting

Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.

Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.

1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language:

[…] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 5, in Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 76:

Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.


Likely influenced by the time (4:20 pm) a particular group would meet in search of marijuana, circa 1971; subsequently spread as a cipher through the San Francisco Bay area and adopted among Grateful Dead fans.


juju

en-noun

juju (countable and uncountable, plural jujus)

From a West African language, probably originally from French joujou.

/ˈd͡ʒuːd͡ʒu/

Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor's armamentarium.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

(countable) A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.


endo

Originally used to refer to the bottom tips of the marijuana plant which accumulate the most resin and crystals after being hung to dry, probably from end + -o.

rollin' down the street smokin' endo / sippin' on gin and juice

So as I drive home / I roll my window up / And my endo up in the same motion


muta

(US, slang) Alternative form of mootah (“marijuana”)


hell's bells

From hell + -’s + bells, possibly an elaboration of hell (used to express anger, discontent, or unhappiness) with bells chosen to rhyme with hell’s.
The noun sense (Datura stramonium) may allude to the often spiny seed capsules of the poisonous plant which somewhat resemble bells when they mature and split open; compare devil's cucumber, devil's snare, devil's trumpet, and devil's weed which are other common names for the plant.

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual


Catawba

From catawba, as the tree was the people's totem.

There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him.

1970, a Catawba origin story, told and retold by various individuals, and printed by Charles M. Hudson in his book The Catawba Nation

A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.


stinkweed

stinkweed (countable and uncountable, plural stinkweeds)

Ailanthus altissima
Ailanthus altissima#Translingual


Riesling

A white wine made from this grape (often slightly sweet).


catawba

From Catawba catawba (“catalpa tree”). See also catalpa.

The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.


jimsonweed

jimsonweed (countable and uncountable, plural jimsonweeds)

(US, by extension, proscribed) Any poisonous plant of the genus Datura.


hydrochronic

A very potent type of hydroponically-grown marijuana.


scores

Coordinate term: benners

"On the phone you said you want a scores, you think I would come all the way here for a benners you prick!!!"

What's that smell in the chеst of drawers? / Young boy sellin' them benz and scores / Gotta get rich in desperate cause / Talk about drill, gotta mention moi

2024 September 5, Central Cee, Einer Bankz, Raye (lyrics and music), “Moi”, performed by Central Cee and Raye, Columbia Records:

(slang, UK) A bag of cannabis worth £20.


fox grape

The native eastern North American grape, Vitis labrusca, with many cultivars, of which the Concord grape is the most important.


yarndie

From Wiradjuri nyaandi (“thingamajig, what's-its-name”).

bor

1984, L. Fogarty, Ngutji
Yarndi = grass.

1990, Davis et al., Paperbark
He made enough to ... keep himself in Nyandi (herb).

1992, Today, Sept.
It’s just as well it doesn’t depend on our feelings. Good feelings just fade like Yarndi smoke.

1992, R. L. Ginibi, Real Deadly
Ya can’t work hard, drink, and some yarndie too!

1993, Koori Mail, 10 Mar.
I drank and smoked yarndie for fourteen years.


bong hit

From bong + hit. First use in English appears c. 1978, in the periodical Washingtonian.

Jim took such a big bong hit that he coughed for a whole minute.

(slang) The inhalation of marijuana smoke through a bong.


bongwater

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

The water through which smoke is filtered in a bong or water pipe.


Alice B. Toklas brownie

en-noun

Alice B. Toklas brownie (plural Alice B. Toklas brownies)

Named after American artist Alice Babette Toklas (1877–1967; the life partner of Gertrude Stein), whose The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book (1954) included a recipe for fudge containing cannabis.

A sweet cake or biscuit made with cannabis.

Gertrude Stein
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book


carotte

a carotte of perique

He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.

1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:


sultana

1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness.

bor

feminine of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">sultano</i>


Cabernet Sauvignon

en-noun

Cabernet Sauvignon (countable and uncountable, plural Cabernet Sauvignons)

A variety of red grape used principally in wine-making.


pakalolo

pakalolo (countable and uncountable, plural pakalolos)

From Hawaiian paka (“tobacco”) + lōlō (“numbing”).

(Hawaii) Cannabis marihuana; dagga; ganja; the flowers of the hemp plant, used as smoking material in cigarettes or pipes.


dispensary

He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120:

A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly:

(dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.


winemaker

From Middle English wynmaker; equivalent to wine + maker.


vinho

vinho (countable and uncountable, plural vinhos)

Borrowed from Portuguese vinho (“wine”); compare vino. Doublet of wine and vine.


Niagara

/naɪˈæɡ(ə)ɹə/

From an Iroquoian language; compare Mohawk ohnyá:kara' (“neck of land”). The name of the tribe which resided in the area was recorded on early maps as Onguiarahronon or Niagagarega.

A river (the Niagara River) which flows from Lake Erie, over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario; the geographical region of the United States and Canada in proximity to this river.


kretek

Borrowed from Indonesian kretek, of onomatopoetic origin.

A cigarette containing clove as well as tobacco, originating from Indonesia.


viniculture

viniculture (countable and uncountable, plural vinicultures)

From Latin vīnī cultūra (“cultivation of wine, winegrowing”). Compare viticulture.

Synonym of viticulture, the cultivation of grape vines for producing wine.


grapeseed oil

grapeseed oil (countable and uncountable, plural grapeseed oils)

Grapeseed Oil: This organically grown oil from France is ideal as a massage oil.

2006, Jesse Dallas, Pets Need Wholesome Food Also:

A light, relatively bland vegetable oil, extracted from the seeds of the grape; used for salad dressings etc.


grapeseed

The Corpus Luteum: […] scarcely a month after conception, one of them might have contained a grapeseed, although its perforation was too small to admit a hempseed.

1852, Alfred Velpeau, A Complete Treatise on Midwifery:


scuppernong

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ/

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɑŋ/

Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.

A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).


blunted

en-adj

blunted (comparative more blunted, superlative most blunted)

more blunted (comparative)
most blunted (superlative)

I was blunted when I came, puffin' marijuana blends

2009 March 31, “Allison James”, in Slaine (lyrics), Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (music), Decalogue, New York City: Babygrande Records:


regs

Shortening of regular + -s (possibly either genitive or plural).

(slang) Low-grade or commercial-grade marijuana.


dime bag

A small bag containing ten dollars worth (usually one gram) of marijuana. This may refer to the unit of measurement or the bag itself.


cheeba

I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it / I don't buy cheeba, I grow it

1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:


lamb's bread

We don't want no hash, we don't want no dope, we just want the Lamb's bread collie

This one maybe grow to be the Lamb's Bread. Dat be strong weed.

For a change of pace we might smoke some Kona gold, Jamaican Lamb's Bread, or a competitor's Sonoma coma, indica, or […]

2003, Don Henry Ford, Jr., A Cowboy's Observations on Drugs:

Lamb's bread a special herb a hard for get eet, seen?

2004, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader:

Marley: It lamb's bread.
High Times: What's lamb's bread?
Marley: De ability what de herb 'ave ya call lamb's bread. Some a dem ya call Bethlehem's bread.

2004, Annie Nocenti, Ruth Baldwin, The High Times Reader:


moonflower

Any of several plants that flower at night:

Any of species of Datura, including Datura inoxia.

Datura inoxia
Datura inoxia#Translingual


bhang

Transliteration of Hindustani بھانگ / भाँग (bhāṅg).

Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36

He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, page 101:

Government-approved bhang shops thrive next to sweet shops flaunting rows of local desserts inside brightly lit, glass-panelled counters.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 13:

(India, Kenya, Uganda, elsewhere slang) Cannabis and preparations thereof.


Shiraz

A major city in Fars province, in southern Iran, near the remains of Persepolis.


dolcetto

en-noun

dolcetto (countable and uncountable, plural dolcettos or dolcetti)

/dɒlˈtʃɛtəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian, a diminutive of dolce (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and doucet.

A grape variety from Piedmont, used to make a red wine.


broadleaf

broadleaf (plural broadleafs or broadleaves)

broadleafs (plural)
broadleaves (plural)

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.


indica

From Latin indica, from being associated with the Indian Subcontinent.

Most commonly grown strains of cannabis are sativa, indica, or a hybrid of the two. Sativas have long skinny leaves; indicas have short, fat, stubby leaves.

2008, J. C. Stitch, Marijuana Garden Saver: Handbook for Healthy Plants:

Cannabis indica
Cannabis indica#Translingual

Marijuana of the species Cannabis indica.


sweetleaf

sweetleaf (countable and uncountable, plural sweetleafs)


doob

I don't smoke doobs and I don't really hang out.

1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Bee-Bee (Dina Spybey-Waters):


space cake

From the informal term space out, and cake.

(slang) Cake as an edible infused with THC / psychoactive extraction of cannabis, usually in the form of cannabutter.


muscatel

muscatel (countable and uncountable, plural muscatels)

From Middle English muskadel, from Old Occitan muscadel, originally a diminutive of muscat.

A muscat grape or raisin, especially one from southern Spain.


muscat

muscat (countable and uncountable, plural muscats)

A white grape variety; used as table grapes and for making raisins and sweet wine.


trebbiano

trebbiano (countable and uncountable, plural trebbianos)

/tɹɛbiˈɑːnəʊ/

A variety of dry white wine made from this grape.


malvasia

malvasia (countable and uncountable, plural malvasias)

From Italian, from Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía, “Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese), from μόνος (mónos, “only one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν + βάσις). Doublet of malvoisie.

der

A variety of grape, originally from the region of the Aegean, now used to make malmsey wine.


medible

Bear in mind that tinctures and medibles (edibles containing marijuana) use far more than ingestion by smoking.

2010 October 18, Alicia Williamson, Grow Marijuana Now!: An Introductory, Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Cannabis, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Medical Marijuana: More Than Just THC”; “Medibles: Cannabis 86 Cooking”; “NORML at 40-Years-Old”; […]

2013, David E. Newton, Marijuana: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 202:

Jonathan Martin, “Medical Marijuana: 'Medibles' Industry Thrives, Lacks Safety Regulations,” Seattle Times, October 7, 2012. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019372300 _medibles08m.html.

2013 September 17, Arthur Gillard, Medical Marijuana, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 95:

Experimenting with marijuana tinctures and edibles (medibles), while also continuing to immerse their daughter in social therapy, the parents saw rapid, significant improvements. They found specific profiles of CBD (cannabadiol),[…]

2014 August 6, Dr. Mark Sircus, Medical Marijuana, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

[...] is most common but homemade or commercial foods laced with concentrated marijuana (“medibles”) are gaining popularity.

2015 October 26, Larry P. Tilley, Francis W. K. Smith, Jr., Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 844:


mootah

Rapp smoked his muta while he played the new guitar, and I blew on my kazoo.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 52:


tokay

The tokay gecko, a spotted lizard native to Asia and some Pacific islands.


Savagnin

A variety of white wine grape with green-skinned berries grown mostly in the Jura region of France, where it makes the famous vin jaune and vin de paille.


chewing tobacco

en-noun

chewing tobacco (countable and uncountable, plural chewing tobaccos)

→ Kashubian: czułingtobaczi (Canada)

Coordinate term: snuff

(US) Tobacco, cut or ground finely, placed between cheek and gum to allow nicotine absorption through the mucous membranes.


thorn apple

Cognate with Dutch doornappel and French pomme épineuse.

манг

any of several species of plants belonging to the genus Datura

Any of several species of plants bearing thorns and apple-like fruit:

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), an annual plant having white flowers and prickly capsules.

Solanum incanum, native to Africa and Asia


toloache

Borrowed from Spanish toloache, from Classical Nahuatl toloatzin, from toloa (“to bow the head”) + tzin (reverential). Doublet of toloatzin.

Angel's trumpet, an annual plant of species Datura inoxia.


bip

onom

Imitative

My niggas getting greasy with them licks, nigga
But these free banks, I ain’t use no bip, nigga

2020 October 10, “Toot That Sh!t Up”, Kai Bandz (lyrics), 1:34:

You have your bip on you?
'Cause if you ain't got no bip on you, I ain't hangin' out with you

2022 March 11, “B$G Intro” (track 1, right in the beginning), in Baby Stone Gorillas (lyrics), BABYST5XNE GORILLAS:

(Bay Area, California slang) Synonym of spliff


MJ

(slang) Initialism of Mary Jane; marijuana.


Gewürztraminer

en-noun

Gewürztraminer (countable and uncountable, plural Gewürztraminers)

[ɡəˈvɝtstɹəˌmiːnɚ]

Borrowed from German Gewürztraminer, from Gewürz (“spice”) + Traminer that is from "Tramin an der Weinstraße" in South Tyrol.

(uncountable) An aromatic white wine grape variety that grows best in cooler climates.


corvina

A red Italian grape variety, used in wines from Valpolicella and the wider region around the city of Verona.


sweetwater

sweetwater (countable and uncountable, plural sweetwaters)

en:water with very little salts dissolved

Alternative form of sweet water (“fresh water”).

A variety of white grape, better known as Chasselas.

(economics) neoclassical, in reference to U.S. macroeconomics and economics departments around the Great Lakes.


indo

Smash, I crashed his head like a window / I ain't Nintendo, I'm high off the indo / Creepin', with the quickness to the cut / Bust one to his head while he munches on a donut

1992 December 15, Dr. Dre, RBX, Snoop Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz (lyrics and music), “The Day the Niggaz Took Over” (track 4), in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre ft. RBX, Snoop Dogg, Dat Nigga Daz:

[Chorus:Michael Marshall] I got 5 on it (got it, good), grab your 40 let’s get keyed. I got 5 on it, messin’ with that Indo weed.

1995 July 4, “I got 5 on it”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz and Michael Marshall (singer):

(slang) Cannabis indica, a strain of marijuana.


Concord grape

Named after the town of Concord, Massachusetts.

The current flavors, are, left to right, ginger and kaffir lime; hibiscus and rhubarb; cola with a base of kukicha, a kind of Japanese tea made from twigs and stalks; and Concord grape and thyme.

2008 June 4, Florence Fabricant, “Homemade Sodas Dressed for a Night Out”, in New York Times:

A cultivar of grapes from the species Vitis labrusca.


dro

They upset for sho', cause they think they know / That they catching me with plenty of the drank and dro

2005, Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone), "Ridin'", The Sound of Revenge

Premro, full of that dro.

2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

The 'Licious Lovers / Known for the closed lips / Letting the 'dro drift/whole click, boat trips/Pocono slope shit / Running our own shit

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:


wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

inh

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.


verjuice

en-verb

verjuice (third-person singular simple present verjuices, present participle verjuicing, simple past and past participle verjuiced)

verjuices (present singular third-person)
verjuicing (participle present)
verjuiced (participle past)
verjuiced (past)

From Middle English verjous, vergeous, from Old French vertjus, verjus (French verjus), from vert + jus. First appears c. 1302.

There are few names to which a jingle or a joke cannot be fitted—witness, Twining, banker and tea-dealer: / ‘Twining would be whining / Were’t not for his tea;’ / and the ex-Lord Mayor, Sir John Key, where the inherent rhyme to ‘donkey’ verjuiced the baronetcy.

1892, W[illiam] G[eorge] Thorpe, “Early Life and School Days”, in The Still Life of the Middle Temple with Some of Its Table Talk Preceded by Fifty Years’ Reminiscences, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], page 3:

(transitive) To render something sour; to embitter.


malbec

en-noun

malbec (countable and uncountable, plural malbecs)

Borrowed from French malbec, said to be named after a Hungarian winemaker who brought it to France.

A variety of grape used in making red wine, originally from France, but now predominantly grown in Argentina.


cabernet

cabernet (countable and uncountable, plural cabernets)


syrah

syrah (countable and uncountable, plural syrahs)

Borrowed from French syrah. The derivation from the Persian city name of Shiraz (شیراز) is today believed to be a legend. The same goes for derivations from Syria, Syracuse or the Greek island of Syros. The name might be connected to the Celtic root Proto-Celtic *serrā, "billhook", referring to the method of harvesting.

A dark-skinned variety of grape, used to produce red wines.


xynisteri

This crisp, lemony white is made using xynisteri grapes, imported centuries before from the Greek mainland.

2009 January 24, Gord Stimmell, “Greece, France, Australia shine in this release”, in Toronto Star:

A white grape indigenous to the island of Cyprus.


cannabutter

(uncountable, slang) A product of cooking cannabis with butter, used to make edibles.


viognier

viognier (countable and uncountable, plural viogniers)

Though the red we drank was fine with the dish, a white, like a rich viognier with a pedigree — a Condrieu, of course — suits it in far better style.

2007 April 4, Florence Fabricant, “Chicken Meets Fingerlings, and Trumps Lobster”, in New York Times:

A white wine made chiefly from viognier grapes.


muscadet

Unconventionally, he recommends a Loire red with fresh oysters, a dish the French customarily consume with muscadet, a piercing Loire white.

2007 July 22, Howard G. Goldberg, “Loire to Order: Offbeat Choice”, in New York Times:

A white grape grown chiefly in the Loire valley of France, or a dry white wine made from this grape.


weedhead

(derogatory, slang) A person who smokes cannabis regularly, or to excess.


winegrowing

Nine riders […] dropped out with injuries sustained in two crashes during the 136km trip from suburban Adelaide through the Clare Valley winegrowing region to Victor Harbour on the coast.

2009 January 23, Ron Reed, “Winds cause crash carnage”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-01-29:

Synonym of viticulture, the cultivation of grape vines for wine production.


furmint

furmint (countable and uncountable, plural furmints)

From Hungarian furmint, from Middle French fromenté (“a type of grape”). Doublet of frumenty.


grenache

en-noun

grenache (countable and uncountable, plural grenaches)

From French grenache, from Italian vernaccia, from Vernazza, a town in Italy. Cognate to Catalan garnatxa, Spanish garnacha, Portuguese garnacha.

A five-course pork dinner paired with grenache wines from several countries will be held on Monday […].

2007 September 26, Florence Fabricant, “Calendar”, in New York Times:

A specific, widely-planted variety of red wine grape, or a wine made from such grapes.


malpitte

(South Africa) A weed in the nightshade family (Datura stramonium), which can be used as a hallucinogenic drug.


antimarijuana

en-adj

antimarijuana (comparative more antimarijuana, superlative most antimarijuana)

more antimarijuana (comparative)
most antimarijuana (superlative)

Alternative form: anti-marijuana

As to the reference to “Reefer Madness,” a torrid antimarijuana propaganda film later revived as a countercultural favorite, the 56-year-old Mr. Rove pleaded forgetfulness.

2007 July 14, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Rove Strategy Paper Found in Nixon Archive”, in New York Times:

Opposed to, or countering, the use of marijuana.

antimaconha

opposed to, or countering, the use of marijuana


Sémillon

A golden-skinned grape used to make dry and sweet white wines, most notably in France and Australia.


chillum

Borrowed from Hindi चिलम (cilam), from Classical Persian چلم (čilam).

He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 521:

The votaries should assemble at night and worship with flowers. The ganja should be washed in the manner in which people wash ganja for smoking. The worshipper must fill three chillums with equal quantities of ganja, observing due awe and reverence.

c. 1893, "Note by Babu Abhilas Chandra Mukerji, second Inspector of Excise, on the Origin and History of Trinath Worship in Eastern Bengal", in Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4

Especially for him I’ve kept some hash that I had gotten from another sadhu, a piece of black Manali of passable quality. In my hotel-room I cut it in two pieces — each sufficient for one chilam (a hash-pipe, usually earthenware, in the shape of a bottleneck, that has to be held in two hands for smoking).

A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.


toke tube

* From the words toke (“to inhale from a marijuana cigarette”) and tube (“a cylinder”).


trich

en-noun

trich (countable and uncountable, plural trichs)


tempranillo

From Spanish tempranillo, the diminutive of temprano (“early”), since the grape ripens earlier than other varieties.

Drive down the straight, red dirt road through flat acres of tempranillo vines to the low-lying building of cedar strips with its undulating aluminum roof and one tall wave erupting in the middle.

2009 April 9, Joan Scobey, “Rioja grande”, in Toronto Star:

A variety of black grape used to make red wines, native to Spain.


grape juice

grape juice (usually uncountable, plural grape juices)

The unfermented juice of squeezed grapes, used as a beverage.