metheglin

noun /mɪˈθɛɡlɪn/

1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales.

   countable, uncountable

   A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.

Where it comes from

From Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“doctor, healer”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry metheglin (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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