grog
UK/ɡɹɒɡ/US/ɡɹɑɡ/
grog noun: an alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
Noun
grog (countable and uncountable, plural grogs)
- An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
- […] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the...1796, John Stedman, chapter 11, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page 264
- Any alcoholic beverage.
- I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, published 1993, page 142
- A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
- Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138
- A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
Verb
grog (third-person singular simple present grogs, present participle grogging, simple past and past participle grogged)
- To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
- To drink alcohol.
- […] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]2009, Kalissa Alexeyeff, Dancing from the Heart
Proper noun capitalized: Grog
Grog
- A male given name of a notional caveman.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.
grog meaning in Tamil and Indonesian
grog in Tamil
- நீர்த்தேறல்
grog in Indonesian
- alcoholic beverage made with rum and water
- grog, arak pelaut
Synonyms of grog
Forms of grog
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | grogs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | grogs |
| present participle | grogging |
| past participle | grogged |
| past | grogged |
Origin of grog
An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down. Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole".
Words formed from grog
Phrases with grog
Words that rhyme with grog
Questions about grog
- What does grog mean?
- Grog means an alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
- What is grog in Tamil?
- Grog in Tamil is நீர்த்தேறல். See Grog meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grog?
- Grog can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce grog?
- Grog is pronounced /ɡɹɒɡ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of grog?
- The plural of grog is grogs.
Words near grog in the dictionary
Source and license
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