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samogon
samogon
English
Noun
samogon (uncountable)
- In Russia, home-distilled illegal spirit, similar to vodka; moonshine.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, p. 185:
- I'd be given a room in a peasant's house, next door to the cowshed, and light chores, (...) drinking tea with whoever fancied himself as the local liberal, keeping them company over samogon in winter [...].
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate 2006, p. 185:
Translations
moonshine — see moonshine