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English
Etymology
From tim + whiskey, from whisk + -ey.
Noun
tim-whiskey (plural tim-whiskeys or tim-whiskies)
- (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.
1824, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in Saint Ronan's Well, volume 2, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 6: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.
- 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.