saki

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun British writer of short stories (1870-1916)
noun Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
noun small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail

Compare French saki and Portuguese saki, ultimately probably from a Tupian name sagui, compare sagoin.

The Sakis are a rude and miserably backward people. — Adventures in Many Lands, Various
There are still many hibakusha, survivors of Hiroshima and Naga- saki, who still want revenge on us for ending the war and saving so may lives. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with “saki,” a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco. — Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne

Munro, H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro

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