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Etymologies?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    'daughter of the wind' what a beautiful image!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    hooch
    alcoholic drink, especially inferior or illicit whisky.

    Origin: late 19th century: abbreviation of Hoochinoo, the name of an Alaskan people who made liquor.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    turpentine

    originally a distillate of resin from the turpentine tree.
    The tree is also known as terebinth (τερέβινθος), related to the pistachio.

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