different between brandy vs eggnog

English

Etymology

Shortened form of brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn (“burnt wine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: br?n?d?, IPA^(key): /?b?ændi/
• Rhymes: -ændi

Noun

brandy (countable and uncountable, plural brandies)

1. (uncountable) An alcoholic liquor distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice.
2. (countable) Any variety of brandy.
3. (countable) A glass of brandy.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: blandi
• ? Basque: brandy
• ? Cebuano: brandi
• ? Chinese:

  Cantonese: ??? (bat⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2), ??? (baak⁶ laan^4-1 dei^6-2)

  Mandarin: ??? (báilándì)

  Min Nan: ??? (bu?t-lân-tî)

• ? Czech: brandy
• ? Danish: brandy
• ? Dutch: brandy
• ? Finnish: brandy
• ? Galician: brandy
• ? German: Brandy
• ? Greek: ??????? (bránti)
• ? Hungarian: brandy
• ? Icelandic: brandí
• ? Irish: branda
• ? Italian: brandy
• ? Japanese: ????? (burand?)
• ? Korean: ??? (beuraendi)
• ? Lower Sorbian: brandy
• ? Norwegian: brandy
• ? Occitan: brandy
• ? Polish: brandy
• ? Portuguese: brande, brandy
• ? Romanian: brandy
• ? Russian: ?????? (brendi)
  • ? Armenian: ?????? (brendi)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: branndaidh
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: brendi

• ? Spanish: brandy
• ? Swahili: brandi
• ? Swedish: brandy
• ? Tagalog: brandi
• ? Thai: ??????? (bràn-dii)
• ? Turkish: brendi
• ? Vietnamese: brandy, bran?i
• ? Welsh: brandi

Translations

Verb

brandy (third-person singular simple present brandies, present participle brandying, simple past and past participle brandied)

1. (transitive) To preserve, flavour, or mix with brandy.

Translations

See also

• cognac

Danish

Etymology

From English brandy, shortened from brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn. Doublet of brændevin.

Noun

brandy

1. brandy

Finnish

(index b)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?brændi/, [?brændi]
• Homophone: brändi
• Syllabification: bran?dy

Noun

brandy

1. brandy (distilled spirit made of grapes)

Declension

See also

• hedelmäviina

Polish

Etymology

From English brandy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?br?n.d?/

Noun

brandy f (indeclinable)

1. brandy (liquor)

Further reading

• brandy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• brandy in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

brandy m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of brande

Spanish

Noun

brandy m (plural brandys or brandies)

1. brandy

English

Alternative forms

• egg nog

Etymology

From egg +? nog. The second element may be nog (“strong ale”) or a shortened form of noggin (“small, carved wooden mug used to serve alcohol”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????n??/, /???.n??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.n??/

Noun

eggnog (countable and uncountable, plural eggnogs)

1. A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas.

   Synonyms: egg flip, egg-hot

Translations