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Webster 1913 Edition
Usquebaugh
Us′que-baugh
,Noun.
1.
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.
2.
A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices.
Brande & C.
Webster 1828 Edition
Usquebaugh
USQUEBAUGH
, n.A compound distilled spirit. From this word, by corruption, we have whiskey.
Definition 2024
usquebaugh
usquebaugh
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) whiskybae
Noun
usquebaugh (plural usquebaughs)
- Whisky.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- You’re darned witty. Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy’s ducats.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses: