slivovice

S1L1I1V4O1V4I1C3E1

A form of slivovitz — A type of rakija made mostly in Eastern European countries from distilled, fermented plum juice.

OriginCzech slivovice →
Scrabble 17
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounslivovice (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of slivovitz.

    Everyone from the town was down at the restaurant/everything else, sitting outside at tables and smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee or wine or pivo or slivovice, while the children ran around the docks jumping from boat to boat to boat playing tag.

    2004, Eric Obenauf, Can You Hear Me Screaming?, [Columbus, Oh.]: Two Dollar Radio Publishing, →ISBN, page 134
    2 more examples

    You only have to walk Olomouc streets (or better—the byroads and back-alleys of the old city center), and you are within a German Expressionist set! The more pivo or slivovice you’ve had, the more forced your perspectives grow. Go to the Tourist Office and see the Hanacka Giant, Olomouc’s closest to the Golem!

    2009, Bernd Herzogenrath, “Introduction: The Return of Edgar G. Ulmer”, in Bernd Herzogenrath, editor, Edgar G. Ulmer: Essays on the King of the B’s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6

    Herbert looked forward to those evenings and welcomed the chance to speak English and give his thoughts on the old Blues Masters over a glass or two of slivovice, or the rum that Peter so enjoyed. […] The girl, having noted Peter’s staring, had come to stand by his table, bringing with her the slivovice from the bar. […] Smiling to himself, he closed his eyes and drained the slivovice from his glass, curling his lip as the harsh spirit burned its way down.

    2015, James Silvester, Escape to Perdition, Chatham, Kent: Urbane Publications, →ISBN, pages 19 (chapter 1) and 47–48 (chapter 4)

Origin

  1. Czechslíva
  2. Czechslivovice
  3. Englishslivovice

Borrowed from Czech slivovice.

More words from Czech

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

“slivovice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slivovice. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “slivovice,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/slivovice.

Source: slivovice on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.