Friday word: Leint

[med_cat]

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From Wiktionary

leint
English
Pronunciation /LAINT/

To urinate in an alcoholic beverage to increase its strength (18th century term)

Comments

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Huh -- I thought that was spelled lant (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lant), but there seems to be a slight distinction between the words? Dunno. (Not that it matters, since it's not a current Thing.)

---L.

[med_cat]

I see; interesting...

[fieryphoenix.livejournal.com]

D:

Bigger questions aside (and there are a few), how much would one have had to be drinking so that urinating into an alcoholic drink increases the alcohol content?

(I'm pretty sure "strength" just refers to the bite of the drink which urine would totally add to, but I'll ask my question anyway)

[med_cat]

I suspect it's the bite that would be increased, as you say...because just thinking of the metabolism of alcohol, not much of it is eliminated in urine, unchanged; most is broken down by the liver(can provide more detail if you want ;))