0 a way of referring to gin (= a clear, strong alcoholic drink): --
Women's taste for mother's ruin scandalised polite society.
It is ten days since I've indulged in mother's ruin.
Gin has been known as Mother's Milk from the 1820s but later in the century it became known as Mother's Ruin.
Mother's ruin is as apt a name for gin now as it was in the 18th century.
They passed around a bottle of mother's ruin.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
mother's ruin
