Usquebaugh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Irish & Scots Whiskey.
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  • n. whisky/whiskey
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.
  • n. A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Distilled spirit made by the Celtic people of the British Islands, originally from barley. In this sense the term is still used in Scotland for malt whisky.
    • Word Usage
    "Some authorities consider that the word is derived from the first part of the term usquebaugh; others suppose it to be derived from the name of a place, the Basque provinces, where some such compound was concocted in the fourteenth century."
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    whisky   
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