grog

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
2. An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
3. Any alcoholic beverage.
4. A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
5. A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

Verb

1. To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
2. (slang) To drink alcohol.

Conceptos

grog

ron con agua

Sinónimos

liquor

alcohol

strong drink

alcoholic beverage

water

🚰

juice

highball

drink

🥤

firesand

chamotte

clinker aggregate

grog refractory

liquid

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹɒɡ/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.