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forty-rod

noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr Proto-Germanic *fedwōr Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz Old English fēowertiġ Middle English fourti English forty Old English *rodd Middle English rodde English rod English forty-rod From forty + rod, a measure of distance, suggesting whiskey so strong it can affect one from 200 meters away.

  1. derived from *rewdʰ-✻ — “to clear land”
  2. inherited from *rudd-✻ — “stick, club”
  3. inherited from *rodd✻
  4. inherited from rodde
  5. compounded as forty-rod — “forty + rod”

Definitions

  1. cheap, strong whiskey or similar alcoholic beverage

    • […]he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time

  2. very strong, containing a high concentration of alcohol

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for forty-rod. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA