hooch

Meanings

1. An alcoholic beverage, especially an inferior or illicit one and especially liquor such as whisky.

1. A thatched hut, CHU, or any simple dwelling.

1. Alternative form of hoosh (“type of stew”).

Etymology

Abbreviation of hoochinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived. From Tlingit xóots (“grizzly bear”).