grog

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (6)  · 
The boatswain talked over the matter with the other warrant officers, till the grog was all gone, and then dismissed it as too dry a subject: and it was the general opinion of the ship's company, that as soon as they arrived at Gibraltar Bay, our hero would bid adieu to the service, either by being sentenced to death by a court-martial, or by being dismissed, and towed on shore on a grating.

View all »
Definitions (8)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun An alcoholic liquor, especially rum diluted with water.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • I think there's also a very good reason why Australians, per capita, drink so much, even though their grog is so expensive. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Many Aboriginal persons still today "go bush" to get off the grog, and in that are enabled to better protect their children while living in more remote places, where alcohol and ganga are harder to access. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • The boatswain talked over the matter with the other warrant officers, till the grog was all gone, and then dismissed it as too dry a subject: and it was the general opinion of the ship's company, that as soon as they arrived at Gibraltar Bay, our hero would bid adieu to the service, either by being sentenced to death by a court-martial, or by being dismissed, and towed on shore on a grating. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • It might be they didn't like their provisions or their grog, and were going to ask for something else, but, whatever it was, I made up my mind to find it out. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
  • An old trader assured me that it was the custom to give five or six gallons of "grog"--one-fourth water--to the hunter when he paid his credits; he thought that only about one-eighth or one-ninth part of the whole sales was in whiskey Footnote 224: A light boat sometimes called a "Mackinaw boat," about 32 feet long, by 6-1/2 to 15 feet wide amidships, and sharp at the ends Footnote 225: See Wis. —  The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 65 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (3)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. After Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon (1684-1757), British admiral who ordered that diluted rum be served to his sailors, from grogram (from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. So called in allusion to “Old Grog,” a nickname given to Admiral Vernon, who introduced the beverage (about 1745), because he wore grogram breeches (or, according to another account, “a grogram cloak in foul weather”).
  2. from grog, n.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/grɑg/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

calculations · angiogram · allows · metalloproteinase · half

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten