Usquebaugh

Quick meaning: Usquebaugh is a noun meaning (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, dated or archaic) Whiskey or whisky.

Meaning

(chiefly Ireland, Scotland, dated or archaic) Whiskey or whisky.

Example Sentences

VVhat dangers thou canſt make us ſcorn! / VVi' tippeny, vve fear nae evil; / VVi' uſquabae, vve'll face the devil!— […]

[A]re the Gael to-day of softer flesh or whiter blood than their fathers were? Knock the head out of a cask of usquebae, let that be their night gear— […]

[I]f you ſcape vvith life, and take a fagot boat, and a bottle of Vſquebaugh, come home poore men, like a type of Theames Street ſtinking of pitch and poore Iohn.

The Iriſh prepare a diſtilled Oenomeli made vvith Honey, VVine and ſome herbs, vvhich they cal Vſquebach, not unfit for a nation that feeds on fleſh ravv, or but half ſod.

Word Forms

• usquebaughs
• usquebath
• usquabae
• usquebae

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quaffer, swig, whiff, swally, whiskey, pawk.

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