Grog
[grɒg] or [ɡrɑɡ]
Definition
(n.) A mixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor.
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Definition
n. a mixture of spirits and cold water without sugar.—ns. Grog′-bloss′om a redness of the nose due to drinking; Grog′gery (U.S.) a low public-house; Grog′giness state of being groggy; Grog′ging extracting the spirit from the wood of empty spirit-casks with water.—adj. Grog′gy affected by grog partially intoxicated: (boxing) weak and staggering from blows: applied to a horse that bears wholly on his heels in trotting.—n. Grog′-shop a dram-shop.
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Examples
- And get on with your grog. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For your own sake, get on with your grog. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Quite true--nothing was to be discovered there but a couple of empty tumblers and a strong smell of hot grog. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He privately drops the dose of laudanum into your cold grog. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Take a drop more grog, Mr. Franklin, and you'll get over the weakness of believing in facts! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The first night the sailors of a British ship, being happy with grog, came down on the pier and challenged our sailors to a free fight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I invited Wemmick to come upstairs, and refresh himself with a glass of grog before walking to Walworth. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I drink the grog (a perfectly new luxury to me, at that time of day), which my good old friend mixes with icy-cold water from the well. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Have a glass of grog? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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