horilka
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ukrainian горі́лка (horílka, “vodka”). Compare Belarusian гарэ́лка (harélka), South Russian горе́лка (gorélka).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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, page 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.
Usage notes edit
This is a foreign term not fully naturalized in English, usually italicized.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:horilka. See also Citations:gorelka.