malt
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//mɒlt//
- United Kingdom//mɔːlt//
- United States//mɔlt//
- //mɑlt//
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
noun
- 1
Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
- 2
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
- 3
informalA milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.
Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.
- 4
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
Etymology
From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.
verb
- 1
To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
- 2
To become malt.
- 3
datedTo drink malt liquor.
Forms
- plural
- malts
- past tense
- malted
- past participle
- malted
- present participle
- malting
- third person singular
- malts
malt · Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
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