advocaat
/ˈadvəkɑː
/noun [mass noun]
A liqueur made with eggs, sugar, and brandy.So I asked for the only drink I knew: advocaat and cherry brandy....
- I bought a bottle of advocaat today for Christmas.
- I also got some advocaat toffees and I like those too.
Origin
1930s: from Dutch, literally 'advocate' (being originally considered a lawyer's drink).
This word for a liqueur made of eggs, sugar, and brandy, is an adoption of the Dutch word for ‘advocate’: it was originally considered ‘a lawyer's drink’, and this was the meaning of the full form in Dutch: advocatenborrel. Advocate (Middle English) comes from Latin advocare ‘to call to one's aid’.