Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bitter medicines generally, as cinchona, quinine, etc.
- Specifically, a liquor (generally a spirituous liquor) in which bitter herbs or roots are steeped. Bitters are employed as stomachics, anthelminthics, and in various other ways.
Wiktionary
- n. A liquid used in mixed drinks or as a tonic into which bitter herbs have been steeped, (can also be found in powdered form for adding to mixed drinks).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
WordNet 3.0
- n. alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots
Examples
“We are human beings, and as such a handshake or a hug or the experience of sharing a bag of BBQ-chicken-flavoured potato crisps over a tankard of bitters is simply not fungible with anything else on this planet.”
“The resurgence in Italian bitters - liqueurs with a sweet-sour flavour profile - has prompted experimentation behind the bar at places like CinCin.”
“They must be known as bitters, or hostiles, or angries, pissed offs.”
“They must be known as bitters, or hostiles, or angries, pissed offs, or in DTL's case, straight-up bullshitters.”
“Chip: They must be known as bitters, or hostiles, or angries, pissed offs, or in DTL's case, straight-up bullshitters.”
“Valerien, a glass of bitters, that is to say, Vinoy's brigade, feigned to attack a saucer representing the Montretout batteries; while the regular army and National Guard, symbolized by a glass of vermouth and absinthe, were coming in solid masses from the south, and marching straight into the heart of the enemy, the match-box.”
“You like to see other folks; taking the bitters is another thing.”
“Evidently the best ingredient in the bitters was the solvent, not the”
“Every evening, from five to seven, they fought a decisive battle upon each marble table, sustained by the artillery of the iced decanter which represented Mount Valerien, a glass of bitters, that is to say,”
“Many turned to other brands, including Fee Brothers, a New York-based, family-owned company that makes Old Fashion Aromatic bitters, which is comparable to Angostura in price and herbal characteristics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bitters’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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roots of beauty
aesthetics, tuberose, gladiolus, actaeon, scammony, symmetry, philocaly, elegant, callisteia, kalology, resplendence, beauteousness and 23 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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miscellany
extrapolate, effluvium, maelstrom, ecclesiastic, potentiate, prestidigitation, verisimilitude, innocuous, octogenarian, interlocutor, proselytize, ubiquitous and 138 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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That's the Spirit!
Liqueurs (generic) from around the world
absinthe, triple sec, curaçao, amaretto, crème de cacao, sambuca, ouzo, anis, anisette, limoncello, grappa, crème de cassis and 27 more...
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of little to no importance
clique, echo, bitters, thunderstorm, summertime, gams, mayday, chopsticks, loose leaf, homemade, curl, between and 13 more...
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Liquor is Quicker
Fermented and distilled.
usquebaugh, whisky, malt whisky, grain whisky, bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, brandy, cognac, Armagnac, Pisco and 71 more...
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some of my favorites
flourish, oddment, persnickety, obfuscate, folly, moxie, flimflam, fisticuffs, whicker, sibilance, filch, succor and 76 more...
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Grocery List
...items noted on my dry-erase grocery list either by me or, if misspelled, by my husband or by my son who does it just to be funny.
elderberry juice, Stoli, provolone, agave nectar, sea salt, cinnamon, mozzarella, stevia, meusli, gouda, columbian coffee, cool-whip and 38 more...
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