rotgut

See also: rot gut

English

Etymology

From rot +‎ gut.

Noun

rotgut (usually uncountable, plural rotguts)

1. Raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor.

   Synonyms: gut rot, hooch, swill

   • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:

     Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.

Alternative forms

• rot gut

Translations

raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor

• Bulgarian: парцуца f (parcuca)
• Catalan: mata-rates m
• Finnish: pontikka (fi)
• French: tord-boyaux (fr)
• German: Fusel (de) m
• Macedonian: брзосмртка f (brzosmrtka)
• Polish: berbelucha (pl) f
• Russian: бормоту́ха (ru) f (bormotúxa), косорыловка f (kosorylovka), шмурдяк (ru) f (šmurdjak)
• Spanish: matarratas (es) m

Anagrams

• gut rot