Three drams of usquebaugh you drank with Dan Deasy's ducats.
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New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, entries for "usquebaugh" and "whisky".
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Charles eagerly pressed for another supply of usquebaugh and warm water.
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When coloured with saffron, or sap green, it closely resembles the Irish usquebaugh.
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I shall want a bottle or two of sack, and a flask of usquebaugh.
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This book even shows the origins of aqua vitae, akvavit and usquebaugh, all very important substances today!
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I'll give you time, as he said to me, when first he taught me to like usquebaugh.
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The air is temperately cold and moist, and for a corrective the natives use a dose of usquebaugh.
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To make verses to the widow, on the other hand, came as easy as sipping usquebaugh or metheglin.
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I have just received your letter of the 2nd, with the usquebaugh, for which I am much obliged to you.
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In ten minutes we had a roaring fire ablaze, and were washing down with usquebaugh the last trace of unkindness.
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The world loved him, and he saw no reason why he should not in return love its venison and its usquebaugh.
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I had been losing cursedly at cards that day, and mine host's wine had a dash of usquebaugh in it, I dare swear.
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The word whiskey, after all, evolved from the Gaelic word usquebaugh, which means water of life, exactly like eau de vie in French and aquavit in Scandinavian languages.
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Johnson felt Martin had failed to record the more interesting aspects of life at the time, and suggested that this was because Martin was unaware of just how different the social structure of the Western Isles was in comparison to life elsewhere. Martin is also known for his early descriptions of Scotch whisky: > Their plenty of Corn was such, as dispos'd the Natives to brew several sorts > of Liquors, as common Usquebaugh, another call'd Trestarig, id est > Aquavitae, three times distill'd, which is strong and hot; a third sort is > four times distill'd, and this by the Natives is call'd Usquebaugh-baul, id > est Usquebaugh, which at first taste affects all the Members of the Body: > two spoonfuls of this last Liquor is a sufficient Dose; and if any Man > exceed this, it would presently stop his Breath, and endanger his Life. The > Trestarig and Usquebaugh-baul, are both made of Oats.
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The word whisky (or whiskey) is an anglicisation of the Classical Gaelic word (or ) meaning "water" (now written as in Modern Irish, and in Scottish Gaelic). (This Gaelic word shares its ultimate origins with Germanic "water" and Slavic "voda" of the same meaning.) Distilled alcohol was known in Latin as ("water of life"). This was translated into Old Irish as , which became in Irish and in Scottish Gaelic. Early forms of the word in English included uskebeaghe (1581), usquebaugh (1610), usquebath (1621), and usquebae (1715).
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