"metheglin" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).",
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          "ref": "1985 June 6, “Opinion: Topics: Lean and Rich History: Ancient Eatings”, in New York Times, retrieved 2023-12-15, Section A, page A26:",
          "text": "A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.",
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          "text": "But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it’s the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer'.",
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          "text": "In Digbie's era metah, metheglin, and melomel were probably considered synonyms. […] \"Melomel\" today usually means a mead flavored with any fruit juice other than apples or pears. Peaches, cherries, blackberries, or plumbs^([sic]) are some good, historic choices.",
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      "ipa": "/mɪˈθɛɡlɪn/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈmɛθəɡlɪn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛˈθɛɡlɪn/"
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