ラム酒の水割り
解説 Definition
ラム酒を水で割った飲み物。歴史的には英国海軍の水兵に支給された酒を指します。広く酒類一般を指すこともあります。
Grog is a drink of rum diluted with water, historically associated with sailors in the British Royal Navy. The word may also be used more broadly for alcoholic drink, but its specific traditional sense is watered rum.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
grog は、英国海軍でラム酒を水で割った飲み物を指した語です。水割りを命じた Edward Vernon 提督の通称 Old Grog と結び付けましょう。この通称は彼の grogram 製の外套に由来します。現代の広い用法では酒類一般を指すこともありますが、歴史的な中心義は rum diluted with water です。
Picture sailors receiving a ration of rum mixed with water. That historical naval drink is grog. The name is linked to Admiral Edward Vernon, nicknamed “Old Grog” because he wore a coat made of grogram cloth; in 1740, he ordered sailors’ rum to be diluted. This also helps connect grog with groggy, now meaning weak, dizzy, or unsteady, often as if affected by drink or sleep. Keep the precise core meaning “rum diluted with water,” while remembering that broader informal use can mean alcoholic liquor generally.
例文
The sailors drank their ration of grog.
水兵たちは支給されたグロッグを飲みました。
He mixed rum with water to make grog.
彼はラム酒を水で割ってグロッグを作りました。
grog の類義語・関連語
grog の語源・成り立ち Etymology
grog は18世紀、英国海軍でラムの水割りを指す語として生まれました。水割りを命じた提督 Edward Vernon のあだ名 Old Grog に由来し、その名は粗い布 grogram の外套から来ています。関連語に grogram と groggy があり、酒の名から酔ってふらつく語が派生したのも面白い点です。
Grog arose in the eighteenth-century British Royal Navy as a name for rum diluted with water. It is traditionally traced to Admiral Edward Vernon, who ordered the dilution of the sailors’ rum ration and was nicknamed “Old Grog.” His nickname referred to the grogram cloak he wore. The adjective groggy developed from grog, first describing the effects of excessive drink and later a more general state of weakness or unsteadiness.
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