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Dec. 26, 2014
Word of the Day

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\MOOS-milk\
noun
1. Canadian. homemade or bootleg whiskey.
2. Canadian. a cocktail of whiskey or rum and milk.
Quotes
My first drink was dad's moose milk. That's what he called it. Moose milk on accounta he brewed it so it come out kinda foggy lookin' in the glass. White, kinda, a watery lookin' white.
-- Richard Wagamese, Ragged Company, 2008
Origin
Moosemilk is a Canadian term that entered English in the early 1900s.
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