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Thread #154845   Message #3639981
Posted By: Joe_F
07-Jul-14 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: Words for Liquor
Subject: RE: Words for Liquor
Said, somewhere, to be the stuff that has the most slang words for it. _Slang and Euphemism_ (1981) by Richard A. Spears lists s.v. booze: A-bomb juice, alchy, Al Cohol, Al K. Hall, alki hall, antifreeze, apple-jack, aqua vitae, ardent spirits, barley broth, barley juice, barley water, bathtub gin, belch, belly-vengeance, belly-wash, belsh, berps, berpwater, bevy, bitches' wine, bit of blink, bivvy, blotto, blue blazer, blue blazes, blue pig, blue ribbon, blue ruin, blue stone, blue tape, bob, boilermaker, bombo, bootleg, breaky-leg, Brian O'Linn, bub, bubble-water, bubbly, bucket of suds, budge, bug juice, bumbo, cactus juice, canebuck, caper-juice, catgut, cat's water, chain lightning, chalk, cham, choc, choke-dog, clap of thunder, cock-ale, coffin varnish, cold coffee, Colorado Kool-Aid, conk-buster, corn, corn-juice, corn-mule, cougar-milk, crazy water diddle, dido, Doctor Hall, donk, drain, drudge, Dutch courage, embalming fluid, eyewash, eye-water, family disturbance, far and near, finger and thumb, firewater, fizz, flash of lightning, fogram, fox-head, gargle, gas, gator sweat, gauge, gay and frisky, giddy-water, giggle-juice, giggle-water, golden cream, grave-digger, Greek fire, growler, gut-rot, hard liquor, hard stuff, highland frisky, hogwash, hooch, jack-a-dandy, jacky, John Barleycorn, John Hall, jollop, joy juice, joy-water, juice, jungle-juice, juniper-juice, kill-devil, kill-grief, kingdom come, knock-me-down, Kool-Aid, lage, laughing soup, lightning, light wet, liquid fire, liquor, London milk, lotion, lube, lush, max, medicine, Mexican milk, misery, moonshine, mother's milk, mountain dew, mur, myrrh, nanny-goat sweat, nantz, near beer, Nelson's blood, never-fear, nig, nose paint, o-be-joyful, oil of barley, old Tom, pain-killer, paleface, panther juice, panther piss, panther pizen, panther sweat, physic, pig's ear, pig sweat, pine-top, pish, piss, pish-maker, pizen, plink, plonk, pluck, pong, pongelow, pop-skull, potato soup, prairie dew, prune juice, purge, queer beer, rag-water, red-eye, red ned, reeb, right-sort, rotgut, rotto, ruin, satin, sauce, scamper juice, scooch, screech, sham, shampoo, sheepwash, shicker, shine, silken twine, silly milk, silo drippings, sissy beer, skee, skit, sky, sky blue, slosh, snake, snakebite medicine, snake juice, snake medicine, snake poison, spirits, spiritus frumenti, squaw piss, stagger-juice, stagger-water, stark naked, stingo, stinkibus, stinkious, streak of lightning, strip-me-naked, strong and thin, strong waters, stump-likker, suck, suds, sugar-candy, super suds, swig, swill, swipes, swizzle, tanglefoot, tangle-leg, tape, tarantula juice, tea, the demon rum, thimble and thumb, tickle-brain, tiger juice, tiger milk, tiger piss, tiger sweat, tipple, titley, tittery, Tom Thumb, tonsil bath, twankay, unsweetened, varnish-remover, wanks, water of life, whistle-belly vengeance, white, white coffee, white lightning, while line, white mule, white port, white satin, white stuff, white tape, white velvet, whitewash, white wine, whoopee-water, wild mare's milk, witch-piss, whoozle-water, yard of satin. That should do to go on.