metheglin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales. countable,uncountable
    — A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.

词形变化

metheglins plural methiglum alternative

词源

From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
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