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gin hot
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synonyms: hot toddy ???
tags: [drink] [rare]
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Definition:[take] the gin, the hot water, the sugar, and the lemon-peel, and [mix] them.Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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I was a strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four* of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet.
*a four is a four-pennyworth
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Uncle Pumblechook, who was omnipotent in that kitchen, wouldn't hear the word, wouldn't hear of the subject, imperiously waved it all away with his hand, and asked for hot gin and water.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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