Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang Raw, inferior liquor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Bad or adulterated liquor, injurious to the stomach and bowels; in the United States, specifically, whisky adulterated with deleterious substances to cheapen it while increasing its apparent strength.
- Injurious and corrosive: said of bad liquor.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang Bad small beer.
- n. Slang Any bad spirituous liquor, especially when adulterated so as to be very deleterious.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality
Etymologies
- rot + gut (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That doesn’t even do it well, because I’ve had some very good plonk, and rotgut is never good.”
“As long as they had somewhere they could peddle their hallucinogenic drugs, gamble their lives away and drown their sorrows in the kind of rotgut that'd leave their livers with the consistency of damp and mouldy Swiss cheese, they didn't care what the name of the damn place was.”
“He has a place down here in a top loft, and has got two hundred and fifty barrels of "rotgut" whiskey.”
“And to maintain cordial relations you deeded to them a fine but isolated farm where, uninterrupted, they could produce 'rotgut' to supply the entire Chicago area.”
“Same thing happens with whiskey – there are some real rotgut whiskeys out there with labels covered in medals.”
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“Especially top quality hamburgers and tequila, not some sort of rotgut tequila and two-bit hamburgers made with supermarket green meat.”
“Nothing really made me go absolutely bonkers, but nothing was vile rotgut either.”
“All on location in Greenpoint, literal rotgut booze, and penis football in a junkyard.”
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“In fact, it was nothing more than Old Crow, the cheapest rotgut I could find.”
“Yes, the distilled spirit known as moonshine, white lightning, white dog or simply white whiskey is the liquor of the moment, bringing together whiskey geeks, home distillers and high-end mixologists, all of whom find in the formerly clandestine rotgut a new means of expression, both for their palates and their politics.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rotgut’.
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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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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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On The Road
It's a book by Jack Kerouac
Vague, jalopy, naïve, emaciated, vindicate, hysterical, Obsequious, Schopenhauer, dichotomy, jargon, phosphorescence, lout and 87 more...
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Moonshine
screech, moonshine, hooch, rotgut, firewater, bootleg, red-eye, sauce, varnish, mountain dew, sly grog, poteen and 30 more...
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good
unfuck, ostensibly, exacerbate, merciless, fluffy, digital breadcrumbs, cyberchondria, power nap, gaping maw, spectral, spectral, verbivores and 75 more...
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R is for Red Clown
My R Words
rabble-rouser, rabblerouser, red clown, rabblerousing, ragamuffin, rama lama ding dong, rapscallion, rascal, ratfink, red herring, red rover, renegade and 39 more...
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stompin' and pickin'
clementine, wabash cannonball, chicory, fisticuffs, flapjacks, grifter, hoedown, honky tonk, tupelo, tarnation, trestle, sorghum and 44 more...
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Sweet spirits of cats a-fighting
Moonshine words and some terms used for the D.T.'s.
white lightning, sugar whiskey, skull cracker, popskull, bush whiskey, stump, stumphole, 'splo, ruckus juice, rotgut, catdaddy, mule kick and 34 more...
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Prohibition Drinks: "The Pansies"
"The Pansies" were on Esquire's list of the worst drinks of Prohibition. Seen in this New York Times article, "Bar? What Bar?" by William Grimes, June 2, 2009.
List also includes other...alexander, sweetheart, fluffy ruffles, pom pom, cream fizz, jake, raines law sandwich, princess mary's p..., leap year cocktail, angel's wings coc..., thunderclap cocktail, sidecar and 44 more...
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