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switchel N. Amer.|ˈswɪtʃəl|
Also -ell.
[Origin unknown. Cf. swizzle.]
a. A drink made of molasses and water, sometimes with vinegar, ginger, or rum added; also applied to various strong drinks sweetened and flavoured.
1790P. Freneau in Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 22 Mar. 3/1 Not wretched switchel and vile hogo drams. 1800Weems Washington ix. (1877) 81 The dauntless Yankees still drank their Switchel. 1840Haliburton Clockm. Ser. iii. xi. (1848) 85 What will you have? cocktail, sling, julip, sherry cobbler, purl talabogus, clear sheer or switchell? 1843Family Herald 29 July 183/1 The drinks ain't good here;..no white noses..switchel-flip..or nothin', but that heavy, stupid, black, fat porter. a1848in Bartlett Dict. Amer. s.v. Liquor, Switchel-flip. 1925Dialect Notes V. 344 [Newfoundland] Switchel, a drink of water and molasses. 1959W. R. Bird These are Maritimes vii. 190 She kept the jug in the cellar and boy when you came in and had a mug of that switchel it was worth while. 1977New Hampshire Times 27 July vii. 20/3 Switchel was a concoction of cold water, sugar, ginger and vinegar, and..it was more or less thirst-quenching.
b. Newfoundland. (A drink of) tea, esp. amongst fishermen and sealers (see quots.).
1897Jrnl. Amer. Folklore x. 211 Switchel, a mug of weak tea given to the sailors between meals when at the seal fishing. 1924G. A. England Vikings of Ice 50 Some were devouring beans and salt meat; others, gulping tea that steamed. ‘Switchel’, this tea was; that is, boiled⁓over tea whereto now and again fresh leaves are added. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 300 Switchel, cold tea. 1974National Geographic Jan. 114/2 [We] snugged down in the cabin for a ‘cup o' switchel’, as they call strong tea. |