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mescal

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English

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A bottle of mescal

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Etymology

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From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice), perhaps from metl (maguey (agave)) + ixcalli (stew).

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Noun

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mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)

  1. A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
    • 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77:
      He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. Argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.
  2. The peyote cactus.

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Etymology

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From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice), perhaps from metl (maguey (agave)) + ixcalli (stew).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -al, -aw
  • Hyphenation: mes‧cal

Noun

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mescal m (plural mescais)

  1. peyote; mescal (small, spineless cactus of Mexico and the southern United States)
  2. mescal (Mexican alcoholic drink made from agave)

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