The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poteen \Po*teen"\, Potheen \Po*theen"\, n. [Ir. poitin a small pot, whisky made in private stills; cf. pota pot, fr. E. pot.] Whisky; especially whisky distilled in a small way privately or illicitly by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potteen.]
Potheen \Po*theen"\, n. See Poteen.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of poteen English)
Usage examples of "potheen".
Old Snakebellys qualities obviously combined those of Irish potheen, wool alcohol and methylated spirits.
As if that were not to be enough for anyone but little headway, if any, was made in solving the wasnottobe crime cunundrum when a child of Maam, Festy King, of a family long and honourably associated with the tar and feather industries, who gave an address in old plomansch Mayo of the Saxons in the heart of a foulfamed potheen district, was subsequently haled up at the Old Bailey on the calends of Mars, under an incompatibly framed indictment of both the counts (from each equinoxious points of view, the one fellow's fetch being the other follow's person) that is to see, flying cushats out of his ouveralls and making fesses immodst his forces on the field.