far from, schnapps-heavy, booming cockney

He would never push his luck on mountains, though he himself was never tired, leaping up from a schnapps-heavy evening to pull on his head-torch for a 1am start, and in booming cockney (“Are you climbing, or what?”) encouraging laggards onwards and upwards.

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Last call for German schnaps?

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: There is a large variety of schnaps

One of the preferred methods of washing down a belly full of food in Germany is a small glass of schnapps.

Farmers in south-west Germany have a long and rich tradition of making schnapps from fruit grown in their orchards. However, many of these small-scale fruit growers can only survive thanks to a government subsidy for agricultural alcohol - a subsidy the EU has ruled is illegal and has to be phased out. Germany has decided to fight the ruling, arguing that the end of subsidies will not only spell the end for one the country's cultural practices, it will also further endanger traditional orchards tended by the farmers.

Report: Kate Hairsine, Karlsruhe

schnapps (shnäps, shnăps) n., pl., schnapps.
Any of various strong dry liquors, such as a strong Dutch gin.

[German Schnaps, mouthful, schnapps, from Low German snaps, from snappen, to snap, from Middle Low German, to snap at.]

• 発音記号[ʃnɑ'ːps]

[名][U][C]シュナップス：アルコール分の強い辛口の蒸留酒.

 

 

 

 

booming[boom・ing]

• 発音記号[búːmiŋ]

[形]

1 ブーンと鳴る［響く］, 轟々(ごうごう)たる

a booming voice
よく響く音.

2 にわか景気の；〈都市などが〉急速に発展する.

boom・ing・ly

[副]

 

cockney[cock・ney]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[kɑ'kni | kɔ'k-]

[名]((時にC-))

1 ロンドンのEast End地区はえぬきの人, ロンドン子. ▼言葉に独特のなまりがあり, 伝統的にはBow Bellsの聞こえる所で生まれ育った人.

2 [U]ロンドンなまり［方言］.

━━[形]((時にC-))ロンドン子［なまり, 方言］の.

［中英語cokeney （cok雄鶏＋ey卵＝雄鶏の卵→奇形の卵→愚かな人）］

cock・ney・ish

[形]