schnapps
noun
(in Europe) any strong, dry spirit, as slivovitz, aquavit, or kirsch.
schnaps
-
a variation of
schnapps.
Example Sentences
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"It is the wretched schnaps Avrumko has introduced," they said.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
He left me in an antechamber, and went within, promising, by his manner, to expedite the business, and intimating an expectation of schnaps on his return.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
I schnaps mine fingers at your vader's influenza.
From The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain by George A. Warren
In a few minutes he returned, and barely opening the door for me to enter, hurried off, apparently with some misgivings about his schnaps.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Lloyd Stephens
Dunder Vander Dunder now took his friend into a tavern, and treated him to a glass of schnaps.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
