Jeroboam:
- A wine bottle holding 3 liters (approximately 0.8 gallon) of sparkling wine.
- A wine bottle holding 4.5 liters (approximately 1.2 gallons) of still wine. [The Free Dictionary]
Noted in “America’s germaphobes were ready for this — and have been for too long,” Karen Heller, WaPo:
Baker suffers from health anxiety disorder, also known as hypochondriasis. Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is its frequent companion. Germs are the mortal enemy. Tony Shalhoub’s detective character in “Monk,” with his phobia of unclean surfaces and bountiful supply of sanitary wipes, is the disorder’s poster child.
Baker’s home is never without end-times supplies of bleach, hydrogen peroxide and the twin set of germ weaponry in our newly confined world order, dainty bottles of hand sanitizer and jeroboams of disinfecting wipes.
