Etymograph

English

gueuze

Gueuze comes from Dutch geuze.

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentgeuze
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentgueuze
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1997same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Dutchc. 1500–presentgeuze
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentgueuze
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1997same form

Earliest quotation: 1997, Michael Jackson: “The gueuze blended by Hanssens of Dworp has a…”

Today it means

noun A Belgian beer made by blending young and old lambics and bottling them for a second fermentation.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Dutch geuze / gueuze