Meanings
plural digestifs
- An alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is presumed to aid digestion.
At Vessel, in Seattle, the bar manager, Jamie Boudreau, starts his cherry bitters by combining separate bourbon- and rye-based infusions with a touch of honey-flavored vodka and the Italian digestif amaro.
2007 June 27, Rob Willey, “A Bit of History, Reborn in a Glass”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021Antonyms: apéritif
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn alcoholic beverage consumed after eating, so called because it is presumed to aid digestion.
Origin
- Frenchdigestif
- Englishdigestif
Borrowed from French digestif. Doublet of digestive.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech digestiv
- digestivbeverage
Finnish digestiivi, avec
- digestiivibeverage
- avecbeverage
French digestif
- digestifbeverage
German Digestif
- Digestifbeverage
Irish díleáiteog, deochín don ghoile
- díleáiteogbeverage
- deochín don ghoilebeverage
Russian дижести́в
- дижести́в (dižestív)beverage
Turkish dijestif
- dijestifbeverage
Cite this entry
digestif. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digestif
“digestif.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digestif. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “digestif,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digestif.
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