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glogg en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɡlʌɡ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio
  • /ɡlʊɡ/ (General-American)
  • /ɡlɒɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ɡlɜːɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish glögg.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
    • He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs. 2010, Katherine Shonk, Happy Now?, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
    • Afterwards we went over to talk to her friend Edith Conover about getting a bottle of glogg for Christmas dinner. 2011, Steve Zingerman, The Beautiful Mistake, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:
    • Adult Swedes also enjoy their favourite Christmas drink, glogg, which is a spicy mulled wine. 2004, Becky Ohlsen, Jonathan Smith, Stockholm, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 11:
    • The first celebration takes place on the first Sunday in Advent, when friends and family gather to drink warm glogg - a kind of mulled wine […] 1999, Stella Ross Collins, Christmas!: Traditions, Celebrations and Food Across Europe, Kyle Cathie, →ISBN, page 12:

Forms

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glögg alternative lexicographic

Translations (10)

de Glögg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · et glögi (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · nb gløgg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · sv glögg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · fo gløgg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · fi glögi (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · is glögg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · nn gløgg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · da gløgg (Scandinavian version of mulled wine) · de Glühwein (Scandinavian version of mulled wine)