hooch, booze, swill (liquor of low quality)
çekim: çoğul Fuseln · tamlayan Fusels
eş: Eingegossenes, Eingekipptes, Eingeschenktes, Gesöff, Suff
köken: Borrowed from Low German Fusel, perhaps originally from Rotwelsch. Cognate with English fuzzle (“to make drunk, intoxicate”).
aile: Fuselöl
🔊 Ein ganz billiger Fusel.
moonshine (Appalachian homemade liquor)
köken: Unadapted borrowing from English moonshine.
indefinite neuter singular of hembränd
moonshine (illegal home-distilled liquor)
çekim: çoğul pontikat · tamlayan pontikan
köken: The term is believed to derive from a French wine, Pontet-Canet, which was popular among the Finnish bourgeoisie in the 1800s. When the common people distilled their own drink, they gave it a name that sounds roughly the same. Alternatively possibly from Pontac, with + -kka.
aile: ponu, pontikankeitto, pontikkapullo, pontikkatehdas
hard liquor, fire-water
çekim: çoğul kořalky · tamlayan kořalky
eş: pálenka, kořala, kořalice, šnaps, šňaps, kořalička
köken: Borrowed from Polish gorzałka, via Moravian dialect with the initial "k" due to hypercorrection. Related to hořet.
product or solution of crude mixture, often obtained by means of adulteration · moonshine
köken: Affixed oplos + -an. Attested before 1965.
moonshine (liquor)
çekim: çoğul kandžas · tamlayan kandžas
beet · cheap berry or fruit wine
çekim: çoğul peedid · tamlayan peedi
köken: From Middle Low German bete. Compare English beet.
poteen
çekim: tamlayan an phoitín
köken: From pota (“pot”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).
moonshine (illicit liquor)