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Definition: Grog |
GrogNoun1. Rum cut with water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grog" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | Specifically, crushed firebrick, used or not, for use as a non-plastic material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Cloth woven with two warp thread combined. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Grog Rum and water, cold without. Admiral Vernon was called Old Grog by his sailors because he was accustomed to walk the deck in rough weather in a grogram cloak. As he was the first to serve water in the rum on board ship, the mixture went by the name of grog. Six-water grog is one part rum to six parts of water. Grog, in common parlance, is any mixture of spirits and water, either hot or cold. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GROG. Rum and water. Grog was first introduced into the navy about the year 1740, by Admiral Vernon, to prevent the sailors intoxicating themselves with their allowance of rum, or spirits. Groggy, or groggified; drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grog |
| English words defined with "grog": Rosedrop, Rosy whelk, Rum bud, Rumbo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grog": BISQUE CLEANER, bisque finisher, bisque grader ♦ Drown the Miller ♦ Grog Blossoms ♦ KILN-FURNITURE CASTER ♦ SAGGER PREPARER, sagger soak. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grog": Rumbo. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Grog" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (grog, toddy), Czech (grog, toddy), French (grog, toddy), German (grog, rum toddy, toddy), Hungarian (grog), Italian (grog, toddy), Manx (grog), Portuguese (grog), Romanian (grog), Serbo-Croatian (grog), Spanish (grog). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, not so much But maybe some roast pigs and stagsand much hardy grog! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Jack Hove down with a Grog Blossom Fever. / G.M. Woodward delin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Grog, Russian navy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Serving out grog, Russian navy. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Grog" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Grog" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 72.73% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "grog": Grog blossom ♦ grog tumbler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grog": grog-blossom, grog-shop. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grog shop | 64 |
grog | 51 |
cleveland grog shop | 26 |
grog tankard | 15 |
galley grog marina | 14 |
grog newburyport | 4 |
grog navy | 4 |
grog recipe | 4 |
cleveland grog ohio shop | 3 |
galley grog | 3 |
drink grog | 3 |
bowl grog recipe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grog"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grog (toddy), punsh (toddy), pije alkoolike (alcohol, boose, booze, drink, fuddle, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, hootch, libation, liquor, lush, ratafee, ratafia, sauce). (various references) | |
Arabic | مسكر ممزوج بالماء, مشروب روحي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грог. (various references) | |
Czech | grog (toddy). (various references) | |
Danish | grog (calcined clay, toddy), chamottekorn (grog grain), chamotte (calcined clay, fire-brick, fireclay). (various references) | |
Dutch | stukken (submissions), chamottekorrel (grog grain), chamotte (calcined clay, fire-brick, fireclay). (various references) | |
French | grog. (various references) | |
German | grog (rum toddy, toddy). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκκος πυραργίλου (grog grain), σαμώτ (grog grain), γκρόγκ, γκρογκ, μεθυστικό ποτό (strong drink), Σαμώτ,άργιλος ψημένη υπό μορφή σκόνης (calcined clay). (various references) | |
Hungarian | grog. (various references) | |
Italian | grog (toddy). (various references) | |
Manx | grog. (various references) | |
Norwegian | grogg, brennevin og vann. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oggray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | grogue (groggy), grog, grão de chamote (grog grain), embriagar (corn, fox, fuddle, inebriate, intoxicate, prime), chacota (mockery, persiflage, scoff, sneer), biscuit (calcined clay), argila cozida (calcined clay). (various references) | |
Romanian | grog. (various references) | |
Russian | шаткий (crazy, groggy, shaky, wabbly, wobbly, wonky), шамот, грог, неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, erratic, groggy, inconstant, infirm, labile, ramshackle, top heavy, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding), нетвердый на ногах (doddering, doddery, groggy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grog. (various references) | |
Spanish | grog (toddy). (various references) | |
Swedish | grogg (highball, whisky and soda). (various references) | |
Thai | เหล้า (berps, cordial, eyewash, gee, giggle goo, joy juice, liqueur, lubrication, lush, muddler). (various references) | |
Turkish | sulu alkol içmek, alkol ve sudan oluşan içki. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грог, готувати грог, пити грог. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quán bán grôc quán rượu (groggery, grog-shop). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grog": groggeries, groggery, groggier, groggiest, groggily, grogginess, grogginesses, groggy, grogram, grograms, grogs, grogshop, grogshops. (additional references) | |
Words containing "grog": hygrograph, hygrographs. (additional references) | |
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"Grog" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arog, Geogg, Geogh, geogo, gerhoh, ghog, Glogg, Glro, gogu, goog, gor, gorc, gorf, gorg, gorga, Gorgo, Gorgu, Gorj, gorp, gorr, grag, graig, greg, gregg, grieg, grig, grige, grigg, gro, groa, grob, Groc, grod, groe, groi, grok, grom, gron, grong, groo, groob, grool, grop, grou, grov, grox, gru, gruc, grug, gruge, gruh, gruj, grung, grurgh, gruz, Gurov, orgg, rgo, rog, Sgroi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "og": flog, Gog, Mog, Scrog, slog, tog. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-o-r" | |
-1 letter: gor. | |
-2 letters: go, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-o-r" | |
+1 letter: aggro, gorge, grego, grogs. | |
+2 letters: aggros, dogger, fogger, froggy, gorged, gorger, gorges, gorget, gorgon, goring, gouger, gregos, gringo, groggy, hogger, jogger, logger. | |
+3 letters: boggier, boggler, clogger, doggers, doggery, doggier, doggrel, engorge, flogger, foggers, foggier, forging, frogged, georgic, goggler, gorgers, gorgets, gorging, gorgons, gougers, gringos, grogram, groping, growing, hoggers, joggers, joggler, loggers, loggier, progged, progger, regorge, roguing, rouging, scroggy, slogger, soggier, toggery, toggler. | |
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