horilka

English

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Etymology

From Ukrainian горі́лка (horílka, “vodka”). Compare Belarusian гарэ́лка (harélka), South Russian горе́лка (gorélka).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hoˈɹilka/
  • Hyphenation: hor‧il‧ka

Noun

horilka (countable and uncountable, plural horilkas)

  1. Ukrainian distilled spirit, sometimes flavoured with hot peppers.
    • 1931, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Lincoln Hutchinson ed., Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution: Personal Memoirs of Katerina Breshkovskaia, Stanford University Press, page 32:
      In return for a glass of horilka he took us to the other end of the village, showed us an empty hut, and introduced us to its owner.

Usage notes

This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in English, usually italicized.

Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:horilka. See also Citations:gorelka.

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