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单词 cougar milk
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cougar milk
7. Originally North American. Strong alcoholic drink, often of a particular type (see quots.), esp. whisky or beer. Sometimes with a preceding word suggestive of strength or ferocity, as in cougar milk, wild-mare's milk, etc. Cf. mother's milk n. 2, Tiger Milk n. at tiger n. Compounds 2a.
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1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 86 This being the day of joy to the Wabash Indians, we beg a little drop of your milk... We could never learn to make rum..and we all love rum.
1802 A. Henry Jrnl. 13 Sept. (1988) I. 135 My Canoes arrived some time before I came, and the Indians anxiously waiting my arrival, to taste the New Milk, what they generally call Rum when speaking in a ceremonious stile.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada ii. viii. 243 What they most long for, is a taste of his rum, which they uniformly denominate milk.
1891 J. E. McCann & E. Jarrold Odds & Ends 34 Wait till I give these two chaps their milk. Fifteen cents please; ten for the shandygaff and five for the pony.
1937 E. C. Parsons Great Adventure 90 Bill was constantly..settling squabbles among the boys resulting from strained nerves or too much cougar milk.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 153 Wild mare's milk, hard liquor.
1958 W. F. McCullough Woods Words 39 Cougar milk, any kind of stout home brew or any other raw liquor.
1970 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 iii.–iv. 21 Milk, beer.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways vii. iv. 264 It isn't that Indians lost their land because of whiskey—that stuff they called the Great Father's Milk—they just lost it faster because of whiskey.
2005 B. Henderson Every Trail has Story vii. 111 I only wish I'd had a round of ‘cougar milk’ for those in the room when making those toasts.
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