Metheglin
//mɪˈθɛɡlɪn// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 2 spiced or medicated mead wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
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