English

Noun

metheglin ‎(plural metheglins)

1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     But Gwen behind the bar said: ‘Try this, mead it is called.’ Reg admired the pure long high front vowel. Sack mead and sack metheglin. A scholarly man, tall and in leggings, his face a map of purple rivery veins, said: ‘Well, it’s the Welsh national drink, or was. Should properly be meddyglyn, liquor being llyn and meddyg from medicus, the healer'.