pulque

From Mexican Spanish pulque, possibly from Nahuatl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʊl.keɪ/, /ˈpʊl.ki/

pulque (countable and uncountable, plural pulques)

1. A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.
   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:

     You went by the sour stink of pulque saloons; they gave you a water glass of cactus juice in there, two cents.

• mezcal
• tequila

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pulque m (plural pulques)

1. pulque

• “pulque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Uncertain. The Classical Nahuatl term for pulque was octli, or specifically iztac octli (“white pulque”). Pulque may be a Spanish derivation of Classical Nahuatl poliuhqui octli (literally “spoiled pulque, spoiled wine”), from poliuhqui (“something lost”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulke/ [ˈpul.ke]
• Rhymes: -ulke
• Syllabification: pul‧que

pulque m (plural pulques)

1. pulque (alcoholic beverage)

   Synonym: (Mexico) neutle

• → English: pulque

• “pulque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024