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glogg

UK/ɡlɒɡ//ɡlʌɡ/

glogg noun: a Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.

Noun

glogg (uncountable)

  1. A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
    • The first celebration takes place on the first Sunday in Advent, when friends and family gather to drink warm glogg - a kind of mulled wine […]1999, Stella Ross Collins, Christmas!: Traditions, Celebrations and Food Across Europe, Kyle Cathie, →ISBN, page 12
    • Adult Swedes also enjoy their favourite Christmas drink, glogg, which is a spicy mulled wine.2004, Becky Ohlsen, Jonathan Smith, Stockholm, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 11

Examples of glogg in a sentence

  • He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs.2010, Katherine Shonk, Happy Now?, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
  • Afterwards we went over to talk to her friend Edith Conover about getting a bottle of glogg for Christmas dinner.2011, Steve Zingerman, The Beautiful Mistake, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:

Forms of glogg

alternative formglögg

Origin of glogg

Borrowed from Swedish glögg.

Words that rhyme with glogg

39 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about glogg

What does glogg mean?
Glogg means a Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
How do you use glogg in a sentence?
He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs.
What part of speech is glogg?
Glogg is a noun.
How do you pronounce glogg?
Glogg is pronounced /ɡlɒɡ/ (UK).

Words near glogg in the dictionary

  1. GloFish
  2. GloFishes
  3. glofitamab
  4. GLOFs
  5. Gloger's rule
  6. glogg
  7. Gloggnitz
  8. Glogova
  9. Glogowski
  10. Glogowskis
  11. Glogue

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