grog
/ɡɹɑɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.65 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A male given name of a notional caveman.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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."
- "[…] 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 […]"
- "For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog."
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".
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡɹɑɡ/
- British English: /ɡɹɒɡ/