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Squash (sometimes known as cordial in British English, dilute in Hiberno English, diluting juice in Scottish English, [1] and water juice in the Northern Isles of Scotland), is a non-alcoholic beverage with syrup used in beverage making. It is usually fruit-flavoured, made from fruit juice, water, and sugar or a sugar substitute.
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
The early English version of the shrub arose from the medicinal cordials of the 15th century. [1] The drink gained popularity among smugglers in the 1680s trying to avoid paying import taxes for goods shipped from mainland Europe: [1] [3] To avoid detection, smugglers would sometimes sink barrels of spirits off-shore to be retrieved later; [1] the addition of fruit flavours aided in masking ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
British slang for penis. In 2011, Harry returned from an expedition to the North Pole to attend his brother’s wedding and was alarmed to discover that his todger was frostbitten — an ...
Cordial (candy), a type of candy that has a liquid filling inside a chocolate shell; Cordial (medicine), a medicinal beverage; Elderflower cordial, a non-alcoholic beverage, commonly called just "cordial" in Ireland; Squash (drink), a non-alcoholic fruit drink concentrate sometimes known as cordial
squash or cordial cordial apple juice or cider apple juice apple juice: sparkling apple juice hard cider cider or hard cider cider: cider vermouth: Vermouth vermouth vermouth Sweets: dessert: dessert dessert or pudding (in addition to the use describing pudding) dessert Jell-o, Jello, jello or gelatin: Jell-o, Jello, jello or gelatin: jelly ...
The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-21259-5. Robinson, Mairi (1985). Concise Scots Dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. ISBN 1-902930-00-2; Ronowicz, Eddie; Yallop, Colin (2006). English: One Language, Different Cultures. Continuum International Publishing Group.