Re: booze words

--- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:

>  Mr Veoler wrote:
> > quoting Mark J. Reed:
> >> I don't get the "bismak" pun.
> > It's Swedish. It means "secondary taste" or
> "after-taste".
>
> Hm.  Is that the same "bis"="twice" as in "biscuit",
> "bissextile", etc?
>
> Thanks for the translation.
>
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
>

I imagine its from German 'bei' (eng. 'by') or some
Gmc  antecedent of that.

English has 'smack' of course, meaning taste, and also
'it smacks of...' as a colloquial expression for 'it's
redolent of...'

P.

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