glöggn.
/ɡlʊɡ/ A Scandinavian (originally Swedish) winter drink, traditionally consisting of hot sweetened red wine to which brandy, almonds, raisins, and various spices are added.
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1927 D. Heathcote Sweden xii. 205 Swedish punsch at the coffee stage, and a very delectable hot beverage called glögg, which is almost as comforting to drink as the mulled claret for which the high table of St. John's College, Oxford, has become so famous.
1938 J. M. Gibbon Canad. Mosaic (1939) ix. 230 The middle piece of copper, urn-shaped, was used on Christmas morning for making glugg, a hot wine drink.
1944 S. J. Perelman Crazy Like Fox 111 Another family brews up an appalling mixture of port, brandy, Burgundy, almonds and raisins, called glögg, and then, I presume, proceeds to get quietly glöggy.
1966 Inland (Inland Steel Co., Chicago) Autumn 16/1 Such Scandinavian delicacies as..gloeg (hot spiced wine).
1970 New Yorker 17 Oct. 134/1 (advt.) On a chilly night in Denmark—a mug of glogg.
1989 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 Oct. 22 (in figure) ‘Coffee, tea or glögg?’ ‘Vikings are getting softer by the minute!!’
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