Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acrid, oily, poisonous liquid mixture of amyl alcohols, occurring in incompletely distilled alcoholic liquids and used as a solvent and in the manufacture of explosives and pure amyl alcohols.
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- noun A mixture of several higher-order
alcohols (alcohols with more than two carbon atoms) formed asbyproduct in the normalfermentation process. An excessive concentration, as in low-qualitymoonshine , causes unpleasant taste.
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- noun a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German Fusel, bad liquor, from Low German.]
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The word "fusel" comes from German Fusel, which is used to refer to low-quality alcoholic beverages in general, especially to inferior wines and spirits distilled with inadequate equipment.
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