Crossword clues for schnapps
schnapps
- Brandy alternative
- Any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes
- Gin
- Strong drink
- Extra comment following school game shows spirit
- Strong drink like gin
- Strong alcoholic drink
- Spirit shown by school getting new computer programs
- Sleeps after school, having imbibed Penny’s strong drink
- School is out, we hear? That’s the spirit
- A strong drink
- Photos with extra power capturing church spirit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schnapps \Schnapps\, n. [G., a dram of spirits.] Holland gin. [U.S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818, kind of Holland gin, from German Schnaps, literally "a mouthful, gulp," from Low German snaps, from snappen "to snap" (see snap (v.)). For sense, compare nip for "alcoholic drink quickly taken."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage, often with a fruit or peppermint flavoring. 2 (context countable English) A serving of this beverage.
WordNet
n. any of various strong liquors especially a Dutch spirit distilled from potatoes [syn: schnaps]
Wikipedia
Schnapps ( or ) is a "strong alcoholic drink resembling gin and often flavored with fruit." The English word "schnapps" is derived from the German Schnaps (plural: Schnäpse), a Low German noun meaning "swallow" documented in High German meaning since before the 18th century.
Usage examples of "schnapps".
Usually at this hour Blobel is in his van or at quarters in town if the section is not too far out in the sticks, quaffing schnapps to chase off the morning chill.
They had their warm apple strudel, and tiny glasses of powerful Schwarzbeer schnapps from the nearby farm, while sitting in front of a roaring log fire.
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The spit hit Roland Weary's shoulder, gave Weary a fourragière of snot and blutwurst and tobacco juice, and Schnapps.
Shaftoe shows up with a bottle of Finnish schnapps, Bischoff brings a loaf of bread, Root breaks out a tin of fish.
Usually at this hour Blobel is in his van or at quarters in town if the section is not too far out in the sticks, quaffing schnapps to chase off the morning chill.
Second, the meeting will be held around Old Man Gosselin's Franklin stove and half those attending will be shot on peppermint schnapps or coffee brandy.
Then his mouth was on hers, seeking, questing, tasting like the cinnamon schnapps in a hot toddy.
When dinner was over she brought a plate of petit fours in silver wrappers and a bottle of schnapps.
Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser - he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.
Bavarian beer, Swedish schnapps, Danzig goldwasser he had drunk of them all, just as he had eaten Westphalian ham and Italian beccaficoes and Turkish rahat lakoum.
He served them a German breakfast, beginning with schnapps, thin-sliced Westphalian ham garnished with pickles and accompanied by pumpernickel bread.