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grog¹

  • /ɡɹɒɡ/ UK
  • /ɡɹɑɡ/ Canada, US
  • /ɡɹɔɡ/ Australia

Rhymes with -ɒɡ

Where it comes from

An allusion to Admiral Edward Vernon (nicknamed “Old Grog” after the grogram coat he habitually wore), who in 1740 ordered his sailors' rum to be watered down.

Alternatively, from Old Catalan grog or groch, modern groc, meaning "yellow" (ultimately from Latin crocum (“saffron”); after the name of the resulting color of the watered down rum sold all over the Mediterranean. The ration of rum tot could also come from Catalan tot meaning "full", "whole".

noun grogs

  1. countable, uncountable 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 bet
  2. countable, uncountable An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.
  3. Australia, New Zealand, broadly, countable, uncountable 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. Australia, New Zealand, countable 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. countable, uncountable A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.

    Similar: chamotte, firesand

verb grogs · grogging · grogged

  1. transitive To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
  2. intransitive, slang To 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 […]

Grog²

proper noun

  1. A male given name of a notional caveman. For quotations using this term, see Citations:Grog.

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noun alcoholic beverage made with rum and water

한국어그로그 geurogeu
日本語グロッグ guroggu
中文格羅格酒 /格罗格酒 géluógé jiǔ
Portuguêsgrogue
Françaisgrog
DeutschGrog
Русскийгрог grog
עבריתגְּרוֹג grog

noun any alcoholic beverage

Русскийспиртно́й напи́ток spirtnój napítok

noun type of pre-fired clay

DeutschSchamotte

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@misc{grog_2026,
  title = {grog},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/grog},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}