单词 | mastika |
释义 | mastikan. An alcoholic liquor made from grain spirit or brandy flavoured with mastic gum, produced in Greece and elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > other distilled liquor > [noun] > others koumiss1598 nugs of balm1609 rakia1613 pariah-arrack1671 stalagma1684 fenouillette1706 aguardiente1752 fennel water1757 rakia1778 mahua1810 mahua-arrack1813 kirschwasser1819 mescal1826 still-spirit1832 mobbie1833 zibib1836 potato spirit1839 mowra1846 tequila1849 Jersey lightning1852 petit baume1858 kirsch1869 mastic1876 Hoochinoo1877 mastic brandy1883 mastika1889 hooch1897 ouzo1897 milk-whisky1906 mahua spirit1920 shochu1938 mirabelle1940 tsipouro1947 mahua liquor1961 Mao-tai1962 changaa1975 reposado1982 1889 Baedeker's Greece p. xxvi Another is μαστιχα (masticha), a liquor distilled from the gum of the mastix, which forms a milky, opalescent fluid when mixed with water. The ordinary price for a loukomi or masticha is 10c. 1901 Scribner's Mag. 29 7/1 No one is a genuine Athenian who cannot drink without a grimace both retsinato wine and masticha. 1930 E. Waugh Labels vi. 148 He said if one ever drank mastika one returned to Greece. 1968 L. Durrell Tunc iii. 114 He poured me a glass of fiery mastika. 1974 Times 21 Feb. 14 The guide maintained that, while Bulgarians were indeed virile, this was due more to drinking slivovice and mastika than to anything they ate. 1989 Decanter Nov. 89/3 Other areas of Greece also serve..mastika, flavoured with mastic gum from the island of Chios. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1889 |
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