whiskey
UK spellingwhisky
- 1A strong alcoholic drink made from grain such as barley, corn, or rye.
Like wine or beer, but much stronger.
Grandpa likes a little whiskey with his evening meal.
This whiskey is made from corn grown on the farm.
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- 2One glass or serving of whiskey.
Like ordering a cup of coffee, but it is whiskey instead.
She ordered a whiskey at the bar.
He had two whiskeys before the meeting started.
- 3Another way to write Whiskey from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet. Radio users say it for the letter W.
The operator read the prefix back as whiskey-tango-foxtrot.
She signed off with whiskey-six-zero on the emergency channel.
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- 4A small, light carriage pulled by a single horse.
Like a small open cart, but pulled by only one horse.
The doctor arrived in a whiskey pulled by his gray mare.
Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride, Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;
1772, George Alexander Stevens, “The Portrait”Here, Whiskeys means light carriages, each pulled by one horse.Similargig
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Origins
It comes from Irish 'uisce beatha' and Scottish Gaelic 'uisge-beatha', meaning 'water of life'. English shortened it from 'usquebaugh' to 'whiskey'.
From the word 'whisk' plus the ending '-ey'.