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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) Synonym of sagueir (palm wine made from Arenga pinnata)..
More sagoweer, or palm wine, is drank at this time than at any other, the cocoanut trees being put to no other use than to supply the ingredients.
In Amboyna a man can keep himself and his family on next to no work at all; may dress decently, in the universal sarong and coat that both sexes wear; may eat of the best, drink sweet, intoxicating sagoweer or palm wine to his fullest desire (since he is Christian, not Mohammedan), may loaf, dance, and gossip half the day, eat a quarter of the day, and work perhaps an eighth.
They drink a fermented beverage called sagoweer, but drunkenness is rare.
Use sagoweer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sagoweer means (obsolete) Synonym of sagueir (palm wine made from Arenga pinnata)..
Common synonyms include sagueir.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
More sagoweer, or palm wine, is drank at this time than at any other, the cocoanut trees being put to no other use than to supply the ingredients.
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