Meanings
alternative glögg
- uncountableA Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel.
He led her into a pack of people drinking glogg, steam rising from the glass mugs.
2010, Katherine Shonk, Happy Now?, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 1783 more examples
The first celebration takes place on the first Sunday in Advent, when friends and family gather to drink warm glogg - a kind of mulled wine […]
1999, Stella Ross Collins, Christmas!: Traditions, Celebrations and Food Across Europe, Kyle Cathie, →ISBN, page 12Adult Swedes also enjoy their favourite Christmas drink, glogg, which is a spicy mulled wine.
2004, Becky Ohlsen, Jonathan Smith, Stockholm, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 11Afterwards we went over to talk to her friend Edith Conover about getting a bottle of glogg for Christmas dinner.
2011, Steve Zingerman, The Beautiful Mistake, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 52
Origin
- Swedishglögg
- Swedishglögg
- Englishglogg
Borrowed from Swedish glögg.
More words from Swedish
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Danish gløgg
- gløggScandinavian version of mulled wine
Estonian glögi
- glögiScandinavian version of mulled wine
Finnish glögi
- glögiScandinavian version of mulled wine
German Glögg, Glühwein
- GlöggScandinavian version of mulled wine
- GlühweinScandinavian version of mulled wine
Icelandic glögg
- glöggScandinavian version of mulled wine
Norwegian Bokmål gløgg
- gløggScandinavian version of mulled wine
Swedish glögg
- glöggScandinavian version of mulled wine
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with glogg
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glogg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glogg
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