kill-devil

短语

n. 假饵, 便宜的劣质饮料

别名

kill devil

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of rum, an alcoholic beverage distilled from sugarcane, similar spirits.

    废旧 不可数

    ... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...

    ...the chiefe fudling they make in the Island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Devill, and this is made of suggar canes distilled, a hott, hellish and terrible liquor.

词源

From kill + devil.

来源：wiktionary