Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick fermented alcoholic beverage made in Mexico from various species of agave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fermented drink made in Mexico and some countries of Central America from the juice of the a gave or maguey, Agave Americana.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An intoxicating Mexican drink. See
agave .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A milk-colored, somewhat viscous
Mexican alcoholic drink made from thefermented sap of certainagave plants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[American Spanish, from Nahuatl poliuhqui, decomposed, lost.]
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knitandpurl commented on the word pulque
"Beautiful, detailed notation by Aída on pulque and the agave plant."
The No Variations by Luis Chitarroni, translated by Darren Koolman, p 121
September 16, 2013
ruzuzu commented on the word pulque
Somewhere along the beach in the state of Oaxaca, there's a place called Liza's which has a giant container of pulque behind the bar. I think there's a scorpion and some other stuff floating in its milky depths. Whenever a patron gets too rowdy, the bartenders--Liza's sons--offer a contest to see who can drink the most pulque and prove to be the most macho person there. The offending patron will invariably feel the need to compete, and things will quiet down again after said patron almost immediately passes out after a sip or two.
September 16, 2013
chained_bear commented on the word pulque
Usage/historical note (and great story) in comment on cabildo. As a footnote to that comment:
"Made by Mexicans since ancient times, pulque is an alcoholic beverage derived from the sap of the maguey plant."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 95 footnote.
October 5, 2017