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English
Etymology
From Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”), Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (“water of life”).
Pronunciation
Noun
usquebaugh (countable and uncountable, plural usquebaughs)
- whisky, whiskey
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 70:‘Get some blankets round him, Shem. And hand me the usquebaugh.’
1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:Kit coughed over a noggin of usquebaugh.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish uisce beatha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʊskwɛˈbɔːɡ/, /ʊsˈbɔːɡ/
Noun
usquebaugh
- Irish whiskey
1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:An gooude usquebaugh ee-sarith uth in cooanès.- And good whiskey served out in wooden cans.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74