usquebaugh

English

Alternative forms
  • (obsolete) whiskybae

Etymology

From Irish, Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (“water of life”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌskwɪbɔː/

Noun

usquebaugh (countable and uncountable, plural usquebaughs)

  1. 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.
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