hoome

Updated: May 3, 2025

"I told him; on his importuning me further, that I had a full bottle of the water of ane hoome, "bitter ears," meaning long pepper, of which he was ignorant. We were of opinion that his eager thirst for liquor, as well as his ignorance of the burning quality of the pepper, would induce the bacchanal to try it.

Margaret Fuller - Summer on the Lakes, in 1843