John Barleycorn

John Barleycorn

noun
a personification of barley as used in malt liquor, of malt liquor itself, or of any intoxicating liquor.

Origin:
1610–20
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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John Barleycorn
 
n
jocular usually the personification of alcohol, esp of malt spirits

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