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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chech
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Mar 30 10:09:42 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:09:32 -0500
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> Klingon word: chech
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be drunk, intoxicated
Never used in a sentence.
KGT 95: Klingon drinks may be divided into two types: those with and those without an intoxicating effect - basically, those with and those without alcohol. [...] Any alcoholic beverage is called {HIq}. [...] many native Klingon alcoholic drinks have names that do not contain the word {HIq}. Among these are the very strong {chechtlhutlh} ("chech'tluth"). (The fact that {chechtlhutlh} seems to be made up of two verbs related to drinking - {chech} ["be drunk"] and {tlhutlh} ["drink"] - is no doubt coincidental.
KGT 83: In fact, {vut} can also be used in reference to making a beverage, whether simply mixing ingredients together (such a putting cream in coffee) or starting from scratch (such as brewing ale). A Klingon food and/or beverage preparer is a {vutwI'} (for convenience, this will continue to be translated as "cook"). A bartender, on the other hand, is a {chom}.
Martok compared getting married to a war breaking out: "A long, grueling, intoxicating war." (DS9 "Strange Bedfellows")
Related words:
'uH have a hangover
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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