Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity!
Okolehao - n Also abbr oke [Haw ‘okolehao try-pot still (literally, “iron buttocks”)] An alcoholic liquor usu distilled from the ti root. 1924 Amer. Botanist 30.21 HI, The principal use made of it [=Cordyline fruticosa] by the native is to produce okolehao, a kind of whiskey. 1938 Reinecke Hawaiian Loanwords 26, Okolehao . . .A distilled liquor manufactured in Hawaii. It is made from several materials, the best “oke” [ok], and the only kind truly entitled to the name, being that distilled from the ti root.
“Now I gotta go to Hawaii to try okolehao.”
“That moonshine’s gotta hit pretty hard if it’s based on, ‘iron buttocks.’”
“Try pronouncing okolehao after you’ve had a few shots of it.”
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Works Cited
Cassidy, Frederic G. Chief Editor. Dictionary Of American Regional English. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Print