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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
egg-nog

also eggnog, c.1775, American English, from egg (n.) + nog "strong ale."

Usage examples of "egg-nog".

The cold egg-nog slid smoothly down his throat, and it made him cool inside.

Father always maintained that a man would do more work in his twelve hours, if he had a rest and all the egg-nog he could drink, morning and afternoon.

She examined the empty egg-nog glass, inquired what the evening paper had said about the weather, and then stalked into the dressing-room, and prepared, with much ostentatious creaking, to sit up all night.

It continued to drop, however, though not so dramatically, and in about a week it was normal or a tittle or so above, and I was able to embark on the long course of egg-nogs, very lightly flavoured with rum, with which my mother was determined to bring back my strength.

The fever and the headache did not disappear after a few days of egg-nogs spiked with rum, and the leaden pallor increased.