rice-spirit

noun

An alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.

Meanings

nounrice-spirit (countable and uncountable, plural rice-spirits)

plural rice-spirits

  1. countableuncountableAn alcoholic drink distilled from fermented rice.

    "There is nothing to drink. No, wait. I have some rice-spirit. We could drink that with altar-wine."

    1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 261
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APA

rice-spirit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rice-spirit

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“rice-spirit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rice-spirit. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rice-spirit,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rice-spirit.

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