hooch en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /huːt͡ʃ/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Abbreviation 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”).
Meanings
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(Canada, US, countable, informal, uncountable) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
Bring on the free hooch!
1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.
c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hooches | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| hootch | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (8)
pl gorzała (inferior liquor) · cs samohonka (inferior liquor) · cs kořalka (inferior liquor) · de Fusel (inferior liquor) · cs (domácí) pálenka (inferior liquor) · pl bimber (inferior liquor) · pl samogon (inferior liquor) · pt zurrapa (inferior liquor)