喜樂美語

核心畫面

The picture that holds most of this word is a wooden tub on a ship's deck and a line of sailors waiting beside it. What is in the tub is rum with water stirred through it, poured out in a fixed measure once a day. Everything about the drink meaning comes from that scene: the old-fashioned sound, the sea, the daily ration. One family on this page does not belong to that picture at all — the potter's grog — and it is kept separate rather than forced back into it.

這個字大部分的意思，都收在一個畫面裡：船甲板上一個木桶，旁邊排著一列水手。桶裡是兌了水的蘭姆酒，每天固定量發一次。跟…更多收起這個字大部分的意思，都收在一個畫面裡：船甲板上一個木桶，旁邊排著一列水手。桶裡是兌了水的蘭姆酒，每天固定量發一次。跟「酒」有關的意思全從這個場景來——老派的語感、海的味道、每日配給。這一頁上有一支完全不屬於這個畫面：陶藝用的 grog。那一支另外處理，不硬拉回來。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary gives two accounts. The usual one is that Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed Old Grog after the grogram coat he always wore, ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down in 1740, and the watered rum took his nickname. The other traces it to Old Catalan grog or groch, meaning yellow, after the colour of the watered rum. Both are offered as possibilities, not settled fact.

Wiktionary 給了兩種說法。常見的一種是：英國將領 Edward Vernon 綽號 Old Grog（因為他老穿 grogram 粗布外套），1740 年下令把水手的蘭姆酒兌水，兌水的酒就跟著他的綽號叫。另一種追到古加泰隆尼亞語 grog／groch「黃色」，指兌水後的顏色。兩種都是可能，不是定論。

Wiktionary, 'grog' etymology (Admiral Vernon / Old Catalan groc), as supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1179862399)

Three branches

船上的兌水蘭姆酒

這一支就是核心畫面本身。

noun · C1

A strong alcoholic drink made of rum mixed with water; for a long time it was the drink handed out to sailors in the British navy.

摻水蘭姆酒（海軍配給酒）

泛指酒（澳紐口語）

把海軍細節全丟掉，只留下「酒」這一點，範圍就從一種特定的飲料擴成所有的酒。

noun · C1

Any alcoholic drink at all, of any kind; also, counted, one glass or serving of such a drink.

酒（泛稱，口語）

陶土裡的熟料

這一支跟酒沒有關係，不要硬接。它跟上面兩支共用拼字，靠領域分辨：一邊是船和酒，一邊是窯和土。

noun · C2

Clay that has already been fired once, then ground up and sorted into grains of a chosen size, and mixed back into wet clay to make it stronger and less likely to crack as it dries or is fired.

熟料（陶土用）

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Grogname

  • 1

    A male given name of a notional caveman.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.

grognoun/ɡɹɒɡ/

  • 1

    An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

    • […] giving him a calebash, and the best part of a bottle of my rum, I desired him to run to the creek, and make me some grog, and this he did; but the poor fellow, never having made grog before, poured in all the spirits and but very little water, doubtless thinking, that the stronger it was the better; which beverage I swallowed to the bottom, without taking time to taste it, and I became instantly so much intoxicated that I could hardly keep my feet.
  • 2

    An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.

  • 3

    Any alcoholic beverage.

    • I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent.
  • 4

    A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.

    • 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice [The Legacy], New York: William Morrow, Chapter 5, p. 138, Joe […] told them how he had been nailed up to be beaten, and they shouted another grog for him.
  • 5

    ceramicschemistryengineeringA type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

grogverb/ɡɹɒɡ/

  • 1

    ceramicschemistryengineeringTo grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.

  • 2

    slangTo drink alcohol.

    • […] a practice of “equal surrender.” This evocative phrase comes from Basil Sansom's ethnography […] of grogging sessions among Aboriginal communities in Darwin. Sansom argues that this style of communal drinking […]

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。