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mescal

/mɛˈskæl/

mescal noun: a Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.

mescal: a Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave
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Noun

mescal (countable and uncountable, plural mescals)

  1. A Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
    • He thought: 900 pesos=100 bottles of whiskey=900 ditto tequila. argal: one should drink neither tequila nor whiskey but mescal.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 77
  2. The peyote cactus.

Proper noun capitalized: Mescal

Mescal (countable and uncountable, plural Mescals)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. (rare) A female given name.
  3. A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.

mescal meaning in Tamil

mescal in Tamil

மெஸ்கால்

Forms of mescal

Noun
pluralmescals
alternative formmezcal
alternative form (rare)mexcal
Proper noun
pluralMescals

Origin of mescal

From Mexican Spanish mezcal, from Nahuatl or Classical Nahuatl mexcalli (“intoxicating drink made from fermented agave juice”), perhaps from metl (“maguey (agave)”) + ixcalli (“stew”).

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meiscill (“descendant of Meisceall”), a personal name perhaps related to meisce (“drunkeness, intoxication”).

Words formed from mescal

Phrases with mescal

Questions about mescal

What does mescal mean?
Mescal means a Mexican alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented juice of the agave.
What is mescal in Tamil?
Mescal in Tamil is மெஸ்கால். See Mescal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mescal?
Mescal can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mescal?
Mescal is pronounced /mɛˈskæl/.
What is the plural of mescal?
The plural of mescal is mescals.

Words near mescal in the dictionary

  1. mesaticephaly
  2. mesaxon
  3. mesaxonic
  4. mesaxons
  5. mesc
  6. mescal
  7. mescal bean
  8. mescal beans
  9. mescalbean
  10. mescalbeans
  11. Mescalero

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