hooch
English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
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.
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Noun[edit]
hooch (countable and uncountable, plural hooches)
- (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!
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Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Japanese 家 (uchi, “house”).
Noun[edit]
hooch (plural hooches)
- (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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Alemannic German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- hoch (Germanized spelling)
- hōch (Aargau, Basel, Schaffhausen, Solothurn)
- hööch (Aargau, Appenzell, Basel, Bern, Glarus, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Zürich)
- höüch (Schwyz)
- hoch, hòch (Walser)
Etymology[edit]
From Old High German hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz. Cognate with German hoch, Dutch hoog, English high, Icelandic hár, Swedish hög.
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Adjective[edit]
hooch (comparative hööcher, superlative hööchschte)
- high
- Antonym: tüüf
- 1966, Georg Thürer, Rund umme Blattetisch, page 59:
- Der goldig Sunneboge wird hööcher und hööcher.
- The golden sun's path climbs higher and higher.
German Low German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German hôch, earlier hô (inflected stem hôg-). From Old Saxon hōh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. Compare German hoch, Dutch hoog, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hooch (comparative höger, superlative an'n hööchsten)
Declension[edit]
gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is hooch | se is hooch | dat is hooch | se sünd hooch | |
partitive | een Hoochs | een Hoochs | wat Hoochs | allens Hooch | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | hoge | hoge | hooch | hoge |
oblique | hogen | hoge | hooch | hoge | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de hoge | de hoge | dat hoge | de hogen |
oblique | den hogen | de hoge | dat hoge | de hogen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en hoge/hogen | en hoge | en hooch/hoget | (keen) hogen |
oblique | en hogen | en hoge | en hooch/hoget | (keen) hogen |
gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is höger | se is höger | dat is höger | se sünd höger | |
partitive | een högers | een högers | wat högers | allens höger | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | högere | högere | höger | högere |
oblique | högern | högere | höger | högere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de högere | de högere | dat högere | de högern |
oblique | den högern | de högere | dat högere | de högern | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en högere/högeren | en högere | en höger | (keen) högern |
oblique | en högern | en högere | en höger | (keen) högern |
gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | he is de Hööchste | se is de Hööchste | dat is dat Hööchste | se sünd de Hööchsten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | hööchste | hööchste | hööchst | hööchste |
oblique | hööchsten | hööchste | hööchst | hööchste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | de hööchste | de hööchste | dat hööchste | de hööchsten |
oblique | den hööchsten | de hööchste | dat hööchste | de hööchsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | en hööchste/hööchsten | en hööchste | en hööchst | (keen) hööchsten |
oblique | en hööchsten | en hööchste | en hööchst | (keen) hööchsten |
Note: This declension is one of many; neither its grammar nor spelling apply to all dialects. |
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Pennsylvania German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Rhine Franconian houch, from Middle High German hoch, from Old High German hōh. Compare German hoch, Dutch hoog, English high.
Adjective[edit]
hooch
Saterland Frisian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hooch (masculine hogen, feminine, plural or definite hoge)
- Alternative spelling of hoog
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