samshu
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of samshu
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)A triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.
“It would seem to be a purer ethyl spirit than samshu and other forms, as it does not have the delirient action possessed by many of these, which seem to contain large percentages of methyl spirit.”
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noun
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(uncountable)A triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.
“It would seem to be a purer ethyl spirit than samshu and other forms, as it does not have the delirient action possessed by many of these, which seem to contain large percentages of methyl spirit.”
- (historical, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of baijiu.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Cantonese 三燒 /三烧 (“thrice-burnt”), a former name of 三蒸酒 (sānzhēngjiǔ, “thrice-distilled alcohol”).
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