Rotgut

Synonyms for "rotgut" (14 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (4)

Related words (7)

Related word relations

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More general

6 entries

derived from

2 entries

is a

1 entries

related to

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Translations

13 translations across 11 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • парцуца noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Catalan

1 entries
  • mata-rates noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Finnish

1 entries
  • pontikka noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

French

1 entries
  • tord-boyaux noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

German

1 entries
  • Fusel noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • брзосмртка noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Polish

1 entries
  • berbelucha noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • zurrapa noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Russian

3 entries
  • бормоту́ха noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)
  • косорыловка noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)
  • шмурдяк noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Spanish

1 entries
  • matarratas noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • шмурдяк noun (raw or poor-quality alcoholic liquor)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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Near-synonym: red-eye

Source: wiktionary

Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.

Source: wiktionary

His mother, Dorothy, hung around longer, long enough for her to choke on her own vomit. She had that taste—rotgut, the rougher the better.

Source: wiktionary

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