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Don Q quaff
Answer for the clue "Don Q quaff ", 3 letters:
rum
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Word definitions for rum in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rum \Rum\, n. [probably shortened from Prov. E. rumbullion a great tumult, formerly applied in the island of Barbadoes to an intoxicating liquor.] A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"excellent, fine, good, valuable," 1560s, from rome "fine" (1560s), said to be from Romany rom "male, husband" (see Romany ). E.g. rum kicks "Breeches of gold or silver brocade, or richly laced with gold or silver" [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," ...
Usage examples of rum.
Instead they laboured to bring aboard water, firewood, hogsheads of beer, rum, and lime juice, and cases of wine.
A bomb aimer was sick in the bar after drinking whisky mixed with rum.
Zombies, several bottles of that disgusting lemon alcopop and a rum and Coke.
Many were half drunk, for their officers had issued extra rations of arrack and rum.
Blood-maddened redcoats, fed on arrack and rum, roamed the vast stronghold with bayonets and greed both sharpened.
The bhinjanies all sold chickens, rice, flour, beans and, best of all, the throat-burning skins of arrack which could make a man drunk even faster than rum.
We were sitting under a baobab tree, a weird, muscled sculpture with branches like roots sprouting white, starlike flowers, drinking the rum and talking about the locals.
I wanted to drive deep into the Atchafalaya Swamp, past the confines of reason, into the past, into a world of lost dialects, gator hunters, busthead whiskey, moss harvesters, Jax beer, trotline runners, moonshiners, muskrat trappers, cockfights, bloodred boudin, a jigger of Jim Beam lowered into a frosted schooner of draft, outlaw shrimpers, dirty rice black from the pot, hogmeat cooked in rum, Pearl and Regal and Grand Prize and Lone Star iced down in washtubs, crawfish boiled with cob corn and artichokes, all of it on the tree-flooded, alluvial rim of the world, where the tides and the course of the sun were the only measures of time.
A board was found, fixed on two saddles and covered with a horsecloth, a small samovar was produced and a cellaret and half a bottle of rum, and having asked Mary Hendrikhovna to preside, they all crowded round her.
Walton selected a private room, lunched lightly on baked chlorella steak and filtered rum, and dialed a twelve-minute nap.
You may think, as judges say when they mean you ought to think, that it was an extremely rum thing for him to leave the syringe in the cruet after the job was done.
And that rum fellow Dever came out with apocalyptic warnings of the consequences were the stopcock closed.
Stone and Dino gratefully sipped their drinks, which were laced with rum.
El Dorado, and stay put in Sigisa, drinking rum and dancing till dawn.
Through those who have met the little boats from the rum ships, you have gained the help of Silk Dowdy and those other men who are watching Legira.