单词 | white whisky |
释义 | > as lemmaswhite whisky white whisky n. colourless whisky; spec. (North American) home-made or illicit whisky. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > illicit whisky poteen1809 mountain dew1816 poteen whiskey1816 white whisky1822 pine-top1858 white mule1880 wild-cat whisky1881 brush whisky1885 wild cat1887 white lightning1907 1822 W. Wirt Let. 19 Apr. in J. P. Kennedy Mem. W. Wirt (1850) II. viii. 124 To lustrate as well as to give lustre (so note the distinction) to the hair, the best thing is—whiskey—pure, uncoloured, white whiskey. 1901 G. Parker Right of Way 23 Rouge Gosselin flung off his glass of white whisky, and threw after it another glass of cold water. 1957 W. Faulkner Town xxiv. 357 Ratliff..took a pint bottle of white whiskey from inside his shirt. 1968 ‘N. Blake’ Private Wound i. 17 Padraig, another Jamieson for Mr. Eyre. The white whiskey, mind, this time. Did y'ever try Jamieson's white? 1994 R. Hendrickson Happy Trails 227 It was unlike the white whiskey; not so bad, but still pretty bad—low grade, frontier tanglefoot rye, dear at a dollar a bottle. < as lemmas |
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