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1. (n.) fusel oil
a mixture consisting chiefly of amyl alcohols.
Etymology: (1855–60; < G Fusel bad liquor)
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1. (noun) fusel oil
a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors
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1. fusel oil
a hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol
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