grog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
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".
Inflected forms:
form: grogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any alcoholic beverage.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
examples: 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.
gloss: A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To drink alcohol.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: […] 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 […]
Derived words: grog artist
grog-blossom
grog-fight
groggery
groggified
groggy
groghouse
grogless
grog shanty
grog-shanty
grogshop
on the grog
six-water grog
sly-grog
ungrogged
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: գրոգ
roman: grog
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qroq
lang: Belarusian
word: грог
roman: hroh
lang: Bulgarian
word: грог
roman: grog
lang: Catalan
word: grog
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 格羅格酒 /格罗格酒
roman: géluógé jiǔ
lang: Esperanto
word: grogo
lang: Finnish
word: grogi
lang: French
word: grog
lang: Georgian
word: გროგი
roman: grogi
lang: German
word: Grog
lang: Hebrew
word: גְּרוֹג
roman: grog
lang: Indonesian
word: grog
lang: Indonesian
word: arak pelaut
lang: Japanese
word: グロッグ
roman: guroggu
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: grog
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: groge
lang: Korean
word: 그로그
roman: geurogeu
lang: Macedonian
word: грог
roman: grog
lang: Polish
word: grog
lang: Portuguese
word: grogue
lang: Russian
word: грог
roman: grog
lang: Ukrainian
word: грог
roman: hroh