metheglin means A spiced mead, originally from Wales. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why this word is great
METHEGLIN — [Noun] A spiced or medicinal mead, traditionally Welsh. From the Welsh meddyglyn, blending meddyg ("healer," via Latin medicus) and llyn ("liquor"). Unlike "mead" (which is merely honey’s quiet fermentation) or "hippocras" (which cloaks wine in spice), metheglin is honeyed alchemy—a golden paradox of sweetness and cure. It is the hearth-smoke tang of cloves in a clay cup, the slow seep of rosemary in amber liquid, the whispered promise of warmth in a draught meant to mend as much as intoxicate. A drink for convalescence and celebration, where pleasure and remedy share the same vessel.
noun
- A spiced mead, originally from Wales.“A more practical critic notes that paleolithic man had a very sweet tooth, which he sated with honey. Worse, he moonshined the honey into metheglin, an alcoholic brew. Booze and junk food, in other words, are hardly modern inventions.”