tiswinn.
/tɪsˈwiːn//tɪzˈwiːn/ U.S.
An intoxicating drink made from maize, wheat, or mesquite beans by the American Indians.
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1877 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 162 Addicted..to the use of intoxicating liquors, ‘tiswin’, which they manufacture from corn, and whiskey obtained from strangers.
1891 J. G. Bourke in Cent. Mag. Mar. 655/1 The Apache intoxicant, ‘tizwin’..[is] beer, made from fermented corn.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tiswin..Tizwin.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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