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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse..
1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225, With Two Act Pieces what machines agree? Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis, Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.
1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43, It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey, that is to say no difference at all.
It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.
Use tim-whiskey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tim-whiskey means (historical) Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse..
Common synonyms include whiskey.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225, With Two Act Pieces what machines agree? Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis, Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.
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