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Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort proper noun: an American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.

Proper noun

Southern Comfort

  1. An American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.
    • A word of warning: Sugar's expert terrain is like a shot of Southern Comfort — it's gulped quickly and burns on the way down. At Beech, on the other hand, the hard stuff is mellowed into a longer drink. Did I ski Big Boulder? No way.1989 02, “Skiing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 99
    • What was a knockout, whose sweet-hot drawl hit him like Southern Comfort on an empty belly, doing digging up dirt in a greenhouse in the middle of nowhere? Business, Eric reminded himself, realizing he stared. You're here on business.1997 January 1, Eve Gaddy, Too Close For Comfort: Lone Star Nights, BelleBooks, →ISBN, page 177

Examples of Southern Comfort in a sentence

  • I paused and let the surrounding environment soak into me like the anticipation of a strong shot off Southern Comfort.(Can we date this quote?), M.J. Viskocil, September, Lulu, →ISBN, page 365:
  • The compliment spread through me like a shot of Southern Comfort, warming my insides.2015 May 26, Mary Carter, Accidentally Engaged, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
  • [...] and suddenly they were kissing, really snogging, and her tongue slid into his mouth like a shot of Southern Comfort, and it was happening,[…]2015 September 7, Ann Cleeves, Starlings & Other Stories, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
  • In Tessa's case, both were the color of Southern Comfort.2023 April 18, Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals: Stories, Penguin, →ISBN:

Questions about Southern Comfort

What does Southern Comfort mean?
Southern Comfort means an American fruit-flavored whiskey liqueur, created in New Orleans in 1874, which is caramel in color.
How do you use Southern Comfort in a sentence?
I paused and let the surrounding environment soak into me like the anticipation of a strong shot off Southern Comfort.
What part of speech is Southern Comfort?
Southern Comfort is a proper noun.

Words near Southern Comfort in the dictionary

  1. southern caracaras
  2. Southern Carrier
  3. southern cassowaries
  4. southern cassowary
  5. Southern Cherokee Nation
  6. Southern Comfort
  7. southern common cuscus
  8. southern common cuscuses
  9. Southern Cone
  10. Southern Corsica
  11. southern crested caracara

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