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usquebaugh
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usquebaugh \Us"que*baugh\, n. [Ir. or Gael. uisge beatha, literally, water of life; uisge water + beatha life; akin to Gr. bi`os life. See Quick, a., and cf. Whisky.]
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A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.
The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh.
--Sir W. Scott. A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.
--Brande & C.
Wiktionary
n. whisky.
Usage examples of "usquebaugh".
I know some London gentlemen who make a study of this usquebaugh, in all its varieties, even as Frenchmen do of Burgundy wine.
For the usquebaugh is the daughter of the cold clear waters tha dance in those Highland burns.
Leger into making you my lieutenant, and giving you the custody of a right pleasant hermitage--some castle Shackatory or other in the midst of a big bog, where time will run swift and smooth with you, between hunting wild Irish, snaring snipes, and drinking yourself drunk with usquebaugh over a turf fire.
Fits of deep melancholy alternated with bursts of Spanish boastfulness, utterly astonishing to the modest and soberminded Englishman, who would often have fancied him inspired by usquebaugh, had he not had ocular proof of his extreme abstemiousness.
Pull away at the usquebaugh, man, and swallow Dutch courage, since thine English is oozed away.
Out in Silver Street, which the sun had promoted to gold, they saw beggars, limbless soldiers, drunken sailors, whores, dead cats, ordinary decent citizens in stuff gowns, a kilted Highlander with a flask of usquebaugh in place of a sporran.
It differed only in minor particulars from the usquebaugh and poteen of their Celt forebears.
Shackatory or other in the midst of a big bog, where time will run swift and smooth with you, between hunting wild Irish, snaring snipes, and drinking yourself drunk with usquebaugh over a turf fire.
Fits of deep melancholy alternated with bursts of Spanish boastfulness, utterly astonishing to the modest and sober-minded Englishman, who would often have fancied him inspired by usquebaugh, had he not had ocular proof of his extreme abstemiousness.
While his head ached slightly from the fiery usquebaugh of the Bowhead saloon, he craved a return to a solid diet, so for several minutes he lay supine, conjuring in his agile brain ways and means of supplying this need in the absence of ready cash.
Siberia, and substitute for his refreshing palm-juice the usquebaugh of the Highlands.
They took away his pen and poured him several bumpers of usquebaugh, not forgetting to take a nip or two thelmselves.
What is the world coming to when fresh beef and usquebaugh are crowded to the wall by bad-smelling water!
A rim was pressed to her lips and she tasted the appalling burn of Galwegian usquebaugh.