fuzzy navel

noun

A cocktail, usually made with peach schnapps and orange juice.

“She ordered two fuzzy navels.”

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Meanings

nounfuzzy navel (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzy navels)

plural fuzzy navels

  1. countableuncountableA cocktail, usually made with peach schnapps and orange juice.

    She ordered two fuzzy navels.

  2. attributivecountableuncountableA drink or food (of a specified type) which imitates this cocktail by featuring peach and orange as central flavours (with or without alcohol).

    fuzzy navel milkshake, fuzzy navel cake, fuzzy navel pie

    1 more example

    And you can find menus with imagination: like "Jan's Restaurant's" chuck wagon soup and fuzzy navel pie ... a combination of peaches and orange juice.

    1992, Marilyn Heimberg Ross, Tom Ross, Country bound!, →ISBN, page 81

Origin

There are several theories about when and where the drink was invented, but it gets its name from the fuzz of the peach and the navel orange used to make it.

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APA

fuzzy navel. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzy%20navel

MLA

“fuzzy navel.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzy%20navel. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fuzzy navel,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fuzzy%20navel.

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