egg-nog(g
(ˈɛg-ˈnɒg)
Also (rarely) egg-noggy.
[f. egg + nog strong ale.]
A drink in which the white and yolk of eggs are stirred up with hot beer, cider, wine, or spirits.
| 1825 Bro. Jonathan I. 256 The egg-nog..had gone about rather freely. 1844 Mrs. Houston Yacht Voy. Texas II. 179 Followed by the production of a tumbler of egg-noggy. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xlvi. (1856) 428 And made an egg-nogg of eider eggs. 1872 Cohen Dis. Throat 91, I would rely chiefly on egg-nog, beef essence, and quinine. |