corn-juice

Farmer and Henley list corned and jagged among English synonyms, but the former is probably an Americanism derived from corn-whiskey or corn-juice, and Thornton says that the latter originated on this side of the Atlantic also.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921

The man who preaches Prohibition in public and pays court to a gallon jug of corn-juice in private; who damns the saloon at home and sits up with it all night abroad, may not transcend the law of the land, but if his Gall should burst the very buzzards would break their necks trying to get out of the country.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

We have exchanged our buckskin for broadcloth, our hair-raising profanity for the hypocrite's whine, straight corn-juice for the champagne-jag and the hip-pocket court for the jackass verdict of the petit jury.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

I'll drink your corn-juice, but when it comes to the King's health, I do like this!

Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts August Strindberg 1880

But if Elder Tammas be not held altogether blameless in the premises, what must be said of Saunders McClellan, who loaded himself with corn-juice and thereby sold himself to the fates?

Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878

And yet, all told, Saunders's dry bachelorhood seems to have been caused by an interruption in the flow rather than a drying up of his wells of feeling, as was proven by his conduct coming home from market the evening he overloaded with "corn-juice."

Quaint Courtships William Dean Howells 1878

The glug-glug-glug of his jug, as he tilts and pours from its reluctant mouth the corn-juice so loved of his soul, is all the music dear to his ear, unless it be the same glug-glug-glug as it disappears down his capacious throat.

The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870

Page 270 and corn-juice have in a measure usurped the place of wholesome water.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

I'se got somethin 'besides' ll take the faintness 'way from you; a drop o' corn-juice, I had from that Spanish Indyin they call the half-blood.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850

Some corn-bread and bacon is all these contain; but, no better refection needs a prairie hunter, nor cares for, so long he has a little distilled corn-juice to wash it down, with a pipe of tobacco to follow.

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850