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grog

noun
/ɡɹɒɡ/UK/ɡɹɑɡ/CA/ɡɹɔɡ/

Etymology

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down. Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole".

  1. derived from tot
  2. derived from crocum
  3. derived from grog

Definitions

  1. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of…

    An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

  2. Any alcoholic beverage.

  3. A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

    • 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

    2. To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.

    3. To drink alcohol.

      • […] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]

    4. A male given name of a notional caveman.

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.

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