grog

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

liquor

alcohol

strong drink

alcoholic beverage

water

🚰

juice

highball

drink

🥤

firesand

chamotte

clinker aggregate

grog refractory

liquid

Translations

grog

Grog

grog

grog

grog

grog

alcolico

grogue

ron con agua

γκρόγκ

Grog trinken

ρούμι

Schamotte

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɒɡ/

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".