glogg

See also: Glogg, glögg, and gløgg

English

WOTD – 1 December 2012, 1 December 2014

Alternative forms

• glögg

Etymology

From Swedish glögg.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡlɒɡ/, /ɡlɜːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlʌɡ/, /ɡlʊɡ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ, -ɜːɡ, -ʌɡ, -ʊɡ

Noun

glogg (uncountable)

1. A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
   • 1999, Stella Ross Collins, Christmas!: Traditions, Celebrations and Food Across Europe‎^[1], Kyle Cathie, →ISBN, page 12:

     The first celebration takes place on the first Sunday in Advent, when friends and family gather to drink warm glogg - a kind of mulled wine […]

   • 2004, Becky Ohlsen, Jonathan Smith, Stockholm‎^[2], Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 11:

     Adult Swedes also enjoy their favourite Christmas drink, glogg, which is a spicy mulled wine.

   • 2010, Katherine Shonk, Happy Now?‎^[3], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:

     He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs.

   • 2011, Steve Zingerman, The Beautiful Mistake‎^[4], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:

     Afterwards we went over to talk to her friend Edith Conover about getting a bottle of glogg for Christmas dinner.

Translations

Scandinavian version of mulled wine

• Danish: gløgg (da) c
• Estonian: glögi
• Faroese: gløgg n
• Finnish: glögi (fi)
• German: Glögg m, Glühwein (de) m
• Icelandic: glögg f or n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gløgg m

  Nynorsk: gløgg m

• Swedish: glögg (sv) c