forty-rod

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. cheap, strong whiskey or similar alcoholic beverage uncountable
    — […]he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time
形容词 adj.
  1. very strong, containing a high concentration of alcohol not-comparable,usually
    — As a result of their laws in some of the states statistics furnish the facts that more “rot gut” whiskey is used than ever before, the milder and more harmless beverages having been in a measure embargoed by the law by reason of the fact that they cannot so easily be smuggled and handled as the concentrated “forty rod” whiskey.

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz
Old English fēowertiġ
Middle English fourti
English forty
Old English *rodd
Middle English rodde
English rod
English forty-rod
From forty + rod, a measure of distance, suggesting whiskey so strong it can affect one from 200 meters away.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr
Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz
Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz
Old English fēowertiġ
Middle English fourti
English forty
Old English *rodd
Middle English rodde
English rod
English forty-rod
From forty + rod, a measure of distance, suggesting whiskey so strong it can affect one from 200 meters away.
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