glogg

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See also: Glogg, glögg, and gløgg

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Etymology

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From Swedish glögg.

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Noun

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glogg (uncountable)

  1. A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
    • 1999, Stella Ross Collins, Christmas!: Traditions, Celebrations and Food Across Europe[1], Kyle Cathie, →ISBN, page 12:
      The first celebration takes place on the first Sunday in Advent, when friends and family gather to drink warm glogg - a kind of mulled wine []
    • 2004, Becky Ohlsen, Jonathan Smith, Stockholm[2], Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 11:
      Adult Swedes also enjoy their favourite Christmas drink, glogg, which is a spicy mulled wine.
    • 2010, Katherine Shonk, Happy Now?[3], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 178:
      He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs.
    • 2011, Steve Zingerman, The Beautiful Mistake[4], iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52:
      Afterwards we went over to talk to her friend Edith Conover about getting a bottle of glogg for Christmas dinner.

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