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    How did the word "hooch" come to mean homemade liquor?

    Question #119446. Asked by star_gazer. (Dec 19 10 10:43 PM)


    Zbeckabee

    		hooch also hootch, "cheap whiskey," 1897, shortened form of Hoochinoo (1877) "liquor made by Alaskan Indians," from the name of a native tribe in Alaska whose distilled liquor was a favorite with miners in 1898 Klondike gold rush; the tribe's name is from Tlingit Hutsnuwu, lit. "grizzly bear fort."

    http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hooch&searchmode=none

    Dec 19 10, 11:28 PM
    Windswept

    		It is short for "hoochinoo," a distilled spirit, some say of inferior quality, made by the
    Tlingit Indians in Alaska.

    http://hoochinoohttp://www.eduqna.com/Words-Wordplay/2070-words-1-8.html

    Dec 20 10, 10:27 AM

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