horilka
English
Alternative forms
- gorilka
- ghorilka
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hoˈɹilka/
- Hyphenation: hor‧il‧ka
Noun
horilka (countable and uncountable, plural horilkas)
- 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, p 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.
- 1931, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Lincoln Hutchinson ed., Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution: Personal Memoirs of Katerina Breshkovskaia, Stanford University Press, p 32:
Usage notes
This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in English, usually italicized.
Translations
Quotations
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:horilka. See also Citations:gorelka.
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