单词 | raki |
释义 | rakin. A clear alcoholic beverage of Turkey and the Balkans distilled from a variety of fruits or grains, usually flavoured with herbs and spices, esp. aniseed. Also = rakia n.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > others koumiss1598 nugs of balm1609 rakia1613 pariah-arrack1671 stalagma1684 fenouillette1706 aguardiente1752 fennel water1757 rakia1778 mahua1810 mahua-arrack1813 kirschwasser1819 mescal1826 still-spirit1832 mobbie1833 zibib1836 potato spirit1839 mowra1846 tequila1849 Jersey lightning1852 petit baume1858 kirsch1869 mastic1876 Hoochinoo1877 mastic brandy1883 mastika1889 hooch1897 ouzo1897 milk-whisky1906 mahua spirit1920 shochu1938 mirabelle1940 tsipouro1947 mahua liquor1961 Mao-tai1962 changaa1975 reposado1982 a1613 H. Middleton in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iii. xi. 262 The Subasha (which was our guardian, and left in Towne onely to looke to me) fell to drinking hard at a Racky-house. 1675 H. Teonge Diary (1825) 96 [We] drinke to our friends in England in racckee at night. 1678 T. Smith Remarks Manners of Turks 10 The open assaults of Turks, either spirited with Wine and Rackee, or with the zeal they have brought with them from Mecca. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxv. 255 Not far from us were booths of the Turcomans... Some of them joined us, and one or two wanted rakí or brandy. 1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 Characters 47 They distil from the fruits of trees..a sort of brandy, called rakie. 1834 F. Marryat Pacha I. ii. 27 Sherbet, I cannot drink, rakee I must not. 1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. xxvi. 295 Their dram is distilled from rice, and called Raki. 1873 H. B. Tristram Land of Moab x. 192 The only levy on our stores had been four bottles of raki. 1919 E. H. Jones Road to En-dor iii. 34 I..poured myself out a tot of Raki from Alec's bottle. 1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 410 Raki, the colourless brandy loved by Slavs. 1959 W. James Word-bk. Wine 154 Raki, a fairly general name for spirits in Balkan countries; it may be made from wine, grain, molasses, potatoes, plums, and so on; in Turkey it is a spirit resembling Pernod, which goes milky when diluted. 1969 J. W. Mavor Voy. Atlantis ix. 206 The old woman with two eye-teeth brought us raki or tsipuro, a 40-proof sort of grappa. 1991 Guardian (Nexis) 17 June Glasses of raki distilled from the vines that shroud his little steading in this village on the fertile flatlands north of Tirana. 2002 S. Kinzer in J. Villers Turkey i. 3 The careful mix of ingredients in raki and the loving process by which it is distilled, they believe, make it gloriously unique. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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