metheglin
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of metheglin
1525–35; < Welsh meddyglyn, equivalent to meddyg healing (< Latin medicus; see medical) + llyn liquor
Example Sentences
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That is all I have to say of metheglin.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
She might have left while I was sitting at the bar, drinking in metheglin and praise.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
But after it was transferred to wooden "flackets" in Boston, these Friendship merrymakers contrived to "drinke it up under the name leackage" till but six gallons of the metheglin arrived at Plymouth.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
Of mead or metheglin, the third indigenous liquor of Southern Britain, I know little.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
The "good dame," I suppose, was Mrs. Parlin; and she gave them to drink, it is true, but nothing stronger than metheglin, or egg nog, or flip.
From Little Grandfather by Sophie May
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