whiskey

whiskey

1. Alternative letter-case form of Whiskey of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

• whisky (Scotland, Canada, Australia)

Borrowed from Irish uisce beatha, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”), from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) + *biwotos (“life”), from *biwos (“alive”), calque of Latin aqua vitae. Compare also vodka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪski/
• (without the wine–whine merger) IPA^(key): /ˈʍɪski/
• Rhymes: -ɪski
• Hyphenation: whis‧key

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whiskey (countable and uncountable, plural whiskeys or whiskies)

1. (Ireland, US, England) A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley).
   • 1753, “Historical Chronicle”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XXIII, page 391:

     The exceſſive drinking of ſpirituous liquours, eſpecially whiſkey, is now become ſo common, that more people are killed by them, than by ſmall-pox, fevers, broken limbs, accidents, and all other diſtempers put together. And we are credibly informed, that in one dram ſhop only in this town, there are 120 gallons of that accurſed ſpirit, whiſkey, ſold.

2. (Ireland, US, England) A drink of whiskey.
3. (historical) A light gig or carriage; a tim-whiskey.
4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Whiskey from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

The regional spellings whiskey and whisky are also used world-wide to distinguish regional drinks, for example bourbon whiskey, but Scotch whisky.

• → Jersey Dutch: wäski
• → Punjabi: ਵਿਸਕੀ (viskī)
• → Welsh: chwisgi

• whiskey on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English whiskey.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪski/

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• Hyphenation: whis‧key

whiskey m (plural whiskeys, diminutive whiskeytje n)

1. (a glass of) whiskey

• whisky

Borrowed from English whisky, whiskey, from Irish uisce beatha, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”).

• IPA^(key): /wis.ki/

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whiskey m (plural whiskeys)

1. whiskey (drink)

• “whiskey”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

whiskey m (plural whiskeys)

1. Alternative form of uísque

Unadapted borrowing from English whiskey.

whiskey m (plural whiskeys or whiskey)

1. Alternative spelling of whisky

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.