hooch

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky. Canada,US,countable,informal,uncountable
    — he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.
  2. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
    — Burn the hooches.
  3. Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”). alt-of,alternative,uncountable

词形变化

hooches plural hootch alternative hooches plural hootch alternative

词源

词源 1
Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).
词源 2
First attested in the 1950s, probably borrowed from Japanese 家(うち) (uchi, “house”), especially the dialectal form with an initial h- used on the Ryukyu islands where many American soldiers were based.
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