According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.
liquor, pot liquor, pot likker
(noun) the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked
liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink
(noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
liquor
(noun) a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; “waste liquors”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
liquor (countable and uncountable, plural liquors)
(obsolete) A liquid, a fluid.
(obsolete) A drinkable liquid.
A liquid obtained by cooking meat or vegetables (or both).
(UK, cooking) A parsley sauce commonly served with traditional pies and mash.
(chiefly, US) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.
In process industry, a liquid in which a desired reaction takes place, e.g. pulping liquor is a mixture of chemicals and water which breaks wood into its components, thus facilitating the extraction of cellulose.
A liquid in which something has been steeped.
• (strong alcoholic drink): spirits (British and Australasian English)
• (liquid obtained by cooking food): stock, pot liquor (American English), broth, bouillon
liquor (third-person singular simple present liquors, present participle liquoring, simple past and past participle liquored)
(intransitive) To drink liquor, usually to excess.
(transitive) To cause someone to drink liquor, usually to excess.
(obsolete, transitive) To grease.
Source: Wiktionary
Liq"uor, n. Etym: [OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur.]
1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
3. (Pharm.)
Definition: A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
Note: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquæ or waters. U. S. Disp. Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant.
– Liquor of flints, or Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; - - so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass.
– Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.
– Liquor sanguinis (, (Physiol.), the blood plasma.
– Liquor thief, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole.
– To be in liquor, to be intoxicated.
Liq"uor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquored; p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring.]
1. To supply with liquor. [R.]
2. To grease. [Obs.] Bacon. Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 May 2025
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
According to WorldAtlas, Finland is the biggest coffee consumer in the entire world. The average Finn will consume 12 kg of coffee each year.