Poteen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pəˈtiːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Poteen is a noun meaning (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.
Meaning
(Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.
More Meanings
- (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
Example Sentences
The Irish peasantry practice the distillation of that illicit spirituous liquor, so well known by the name of poteen whiskey, with a most unaccountable infatuation.
He began to rove the country at night, trudging out to shebeens or crossroads dances, to the ceilidhs and poteen sessions that sometimes followed Fair Days in the small towns of Connemara.
The whisky shops and poteens of Scotland and Ireland, the gin-palaces and beer-shops of England, are an incubus that is dwarfing the good in every section of the community, and forcing out the evil.
“Make haste now and go up and tell your mother to hide the poteen”—his mother used to sell poteen—“for I’m after seeing the biggest party of peelers and yeomanry passing by on the rocks was ever seen on the island.”
Word Forms
- poteens
- potcheen
- potheen
- potteen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include peat-reek, bolcane, whiskey, porter, johnny, praty.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.