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Rotgut   Listen
noun
rotgut  n.  
1.
Bad small beer. (Slang)
2.
Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious. (Slang)





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"Rotgut" Quotes from Famous Books



... colens et cellara Quinque, Gutteribus quae et gaudes sunday-am abstingere frontem, Plerumque insidos solita fluitare liquore Tanglepedem quem homines appellant Di quoque rotgut, Pimpliidis, rubicundaque, Musa, O, bourbonolensque, Fenianas rixas procul, alma, brogipotentis Patricii cyathos iterantis et horrida bella, Backos dum virides viridis Brigitta remittit, Linquens, eximios celebrem, da, Virginienses Rowdes, praecipue et ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... me and said: 'I have a new customer.' I said: 'What is it?' He said: 'I have a fellow who is going to take two hundred and fifty lights.' I said: 'What for?' 'He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey. He puts a light down in the barrel and lights it up, and it ages the whiskey.' I met Chinnock several weeks after, and said: 'How is the whiskey man getting along?' 'It's all right; he is paying his ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin


Words linked to "Rotgut" :   intoxicant, alcohol


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