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Ethanol with better marketing — liquid courage that charges interest.
means Alcoholic drink in general — beer, wine, spirits, whatever's doing the job.
from Likely from Middle Dutch 'busen,' meaning to drink to excess — so the word was already about overdoing it before English even got hold of it. There's a persistent folk tale crediting a 19th-century distiller named E.G. Booz, but that's backwards: the surname and the whiskey brand played on a word that was already centuries old, not the other way around.
- etymology
- from dutch buizen, to drink to excess
- same molecule
- beer, wine, vodka differ only in dilution
- body's verdict
- liver treats it as poison, processes accordingly
- paradox
- depressant that feels like a stimulant at first