hooch
An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor…An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
Meaning
2 senses(Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable)An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
Fusel
an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor
A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the grAbbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).
First attested in the 1950s, probably borrowed from Japanese 家(うち) (uchi, “house”), especially the dialectal form with an initial h- used on the Ryukyu islands where many American soldiers were based.
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Forms
plural: hoochesSynonyms
1 synonyms- an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor:hootch
Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable