| 释义 |
tej|tɛdʒ|
Also † tedge, tedje; tedj.
[Amharic.]
A kind of mead that is the national drink of Ethiopia.
1853M. Parkyns Life in Abyssinia I. xvii. 210 Spirits are of an inferior kind, distilled..from the refuse of the wine or from honey... The grape is called ‘wainy’, the wine ‘wain tedge’. 1877E. A. De Cossons Cradle of Blue Nile I. vii. 100 As soon as the baskets of bread had been removed, bottles of tedge were served. 1901A. B. Wylde Mod. Abyssinia viii. 182 The tedj bearer always pouring out a little of the liquid into..his hand. Ibid. xvii. 377 The honey taken from the wanza flowers being greatly prized, as being of a white colour makes very clear tedj. 1925H. C. Maydon Simen ii. 24 Abdulla, the cook, was..too apt to celebrate with the local tej and marissa (mead and beer). 1936E. Waugh Waugh in Abyssinia i. 26 A weekly visit to the cinema, a preference for whisky over tedj..were the western innovations that these young men relished. Ibid. v. 169 They got very drunk in the tedj houses. 1952[see pombe]. 1974Country Life 18 Apr. 938/3 Tej, a mead of honey, hops and water. 1981E. North Dames i. 12 It is known as tedj... A sort of honey-mead... Some call it mies. |