hoochとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).

別の表記

• hootch

名詞

hooch (countable and uncountable, plural hooches)

1. (Canada, US, informal) An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.
   • c. 1910, O.M. Salisbury, chapter 3, in Quoth the raven: A little journey into the primitive, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, published 1962, page 17:

     he was so grief-stricken that he literally drowned his sorrow in “hootch-i-noo,” the native equivalent of whiskey. […] Had he not been so sad he would not have drunk the “hootch,” and if he had not drunk the hootch he would not have died: a perfectly reasonable and logical argument.

   • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):

     Bring on the free hooch!

下位語

• moonshine

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語源 2

First attested in the 1950s, probably borrowed from Japanese 家(うち) (uchi, “house”), especially the dialectal form with an initial h- used on the Ryukyu islands where many American soldiers were based.

別の表記

• hootch

名詞

hooch (plural hooches)

1. (Vietnam War-era military slang) A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.
   • 2022 December 6, Avatar: The Way of Water, spoken by Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang):

     Burn the hooches.

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語源 3

名詞

hooch (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”).

アナグラム

• HCOOH