carboy ?

[ReDim]

I was thinking and it's not just the beer talking, but why do they call it "carboy" ?

...umm... as opposed to a cargirl or even a carperson ?

 

[riverfrontbrewer]

It means big jug in arabic. Cargirl means nothing.

 

[A4J]

I've always wondered about that too. Good to know.

Googled it and it's apparently a corruption of the Persian word "garabah".

 

[ReDim]

Wow !

I asked the question for fun and pun but learned something new

...I did not know that!