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_calabogus_ in Newfoundland, and -- soda-water in the United States, I desired to complete the bibulous cosmos, in which _koumiss_ was still lacking.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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Also spelled callibogus, calebogus, calibogus.
"Frock-coated charlatans arrived from St. John's with bottles of calabogus in their black leather bags, selling a tincture of boiled spruce gum and molasses and rum to the desperate mothers of dying children. They came like vultures. And one of these fraudulent apothecaries . . . was Edwin Pratt."
—David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 59
"Apparently a maritime beverage of eastern North America: ... A drink made by mixing spruce beer, rum or other liquor and molasses; formerly also in clipped form calli with specifying word egg, king, etc."
—Dictionary of Newfoundland English
May 6, 2008