Etymograph

English

pulque

Pulque comes from Mexican Spanish pulque.

  1. Mexican Spanishmodernpulque1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1957pulque1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pulque
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1957, Jack Kerouac, New York: “You went by the sour stink of pulque saloons;…”.

Lineage

  1. Mexican SpanishmodernpulqueWiktionary, English pulque
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1957pulqueWiktionary, English pulque. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1957, Jack Kerouac, New York: “You went by the sour stink of pulque saloons;…”

Every English word from Mexican Spanish pulque

Today it means

noun A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pulque”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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