Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.