pulque
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mexican Spanish pulque, possibly from Nahuatl.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pulque (countable and uncountable, plural pulques)
- A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:
- You went by the sour stink of pulque saloons; they gave you a water glass of cactus juice in there, two cents.
Translations[edit]
Mexican alcoholic drink
See also[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
pulque m (plural pulques)
Further reading[edit]
- “pulque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. The Classical Nahuatl term for pulque was octli, or specifically iztac octli (“white pulque”). Pulque may be a Spanish derivation of Classical Nahuatl poliuhqui octli (literally “spoiled pulque, spoiled wine”), from poliuhqui (“something lost”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pulque m (plural pulques)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: pulque
Further reading[edit]
- “pulque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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