Meaning of grog | Babel Free
/ɡɹɒɡ/Definitions
- A male given name of a notional caveman.
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An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. countable, uncountable
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An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon. countable, uncountable
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Any alcoholic beverage. Australia, New-Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable
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A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. Australia, New-Zealand, countable
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A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size. countable, uncountable
Examples
“[…] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.”
“I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.”
“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.”
“For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.