Hooch Definition

Origin of Hooch

• Abbreviation of Hootchinoo, name of a specific liquor, from Tlingit Xutsnoowú Ḵwáan, the group that produced it, from Tlingit Hutsnuwu (“grizzly bear fort”), the name of the village on Admiralty Island in which they lived.

  From Wiktionary

• Short for hoochinoo from Hoochinoo a Tlingit village where illegal liquor was distilled from Tlingit xutsnuuwú

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Alteration (perhaps influenced by hut) of Japanese uchi inside, interior

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Japanese うち (uchi, “house”)

  From Wiktionary