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Definition: Whisky |
WhiskyNoun1. Made from fermented mash of grain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "whisky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | Trouble put up in liquid form. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of whisky in bottles, denotes that you will be careful of your interests, protecting them with energy and watchfulness, thereby adding to their proportion. To drink it alone, foretells that you will sacrifice your friends to your selfishness. To destroy whisky, you will lose your friends by your ungenerous conduct. Whisky is not fraught with much good. Disappointment in some form will likely appear. To see or drink it, is to strive and reach a desired object after many disappointments. If you only see it, you will never obtain the result hoped and worked for. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Spirit obtained by distilling fermented mash of cereal grains. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Whisky Contracted from the Gaelic ooshk-'a-pai (water of health). Usquebaugh, Irish uisge-'a-bagh (water of life); cau de vie, French (water of life). L.L. whisky. (See L.L. Whisky.) Whisky, drink divine (the song) was by O'Leary, not by John Sheehan. As a pretty general rule the Scotch word is whiskey, and the Irish word whisky, without the e. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | WHISKY. A malt spirit much drank in Ireland and Scotland; also a one-horse chaise. See TIM WHISKY. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Whisky or whiskey is an alcoholic beverage distilled from grain, often including malt, which has then been aged in wooden barrels. "Whisky" is used for those distilled in Scotland and Canada, while "whiskey" (with an "e") is used for the spirits distilled in the United States and Ireland, but there are exceptions. The Welsh version is wysgi. The name has evolved from the Gaelic uisge beatha (water of life). Whisky is drunk straight, with water or ice, or mixed with other spirits.
Whisky is sold in several styles. Malt whisky consists of whisky made from 100 percent malted grain, and malt whisky from one distillery, rather than blended, is called single malt. Other grains used include barley in Scotland, Ireland, and Canada, rye in Canada and the United States. Pure pot still whiskey is made in Ireland from a combination of malted and unmalted barley. Various types of straight whiskey are produced in the U.S. which are aged in new, charred, oak barrels. Blended whisky is made from a combination of any of these whiskies or with the similar grain whisky or neutral grain spirits, which are much less expensive produce than the other types of whisky.
See also
Whiskey is also the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet
- Bourbon whiskey
- Canadian whisky
- Corn whiskey
- Irish whiskey
- Moonshine
- Rye whisky
- Scotch whisky
- Tennessee whiskey
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Whisky."
Synonym: WhiskySynonym: whiskey (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer; (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash; chain lightning, champagne, gin, ginsling; highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres. |
Vehicle | Equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton, wagonette, drag, curricle, tilbury, whisky, landau, barouche, victoria, brougham, clarence, calash, caleche, britzka, araba, kibitka; berlin; sulky, desobligeant, sociable, vis-a-vis, dormeuse; jaunting car, outside car; dandi; doolie, dooly; munchil, palki; roller skates, skate; runabout; ski; tonjon; vettura. |
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Crosswords: Whisky |
| English words defined with "whisky": Ardent spirits ♦ blur, Bourbon whisky ♦ Canada jay ♦ Dom Pedro, Drambuie ♦ Faints, firewater, fuzz ♦ Ginger cordial, Glenlivet ♦ heath pea ♦ John Barleycorn ♦ Mountain dew ♦ Peat reek ♦ Usquebaugh ♦ Whiskeyfied, Whiskeys, Whiskies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "whisky": Athole Brose ♦ Geneva Print ♦ L.L. Whisky ♦ Moon-rakers, Mountain-dew ♦ Punish a Bottle ♦ Rag-water, Ringing the Changes ♦ SIX AND TIPS, Snakes in his Boots ♦ TIM WHISKY ♦ Wheat, whisky-soda. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "whisky": Usquebaugh. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Whisky" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (whiskey, whisky), Czech (whiskey, whisky), Dutch (whiskey, whisky), French (mountain dew, whiskey, whisky), French Canadian (whiskey), German (bourbon, rye, scotch, scotch whiskey, whiskey, whisky), Hungarian (hard stuff, john barleycorn, red-eye, tanglefoot, usquebaugh, whiskey, whisky), Italian (bourbon, whiskey, whisky), Portuguese (whisky), Romanian (whiskey, whisky), Spanish (whiskey, whisky), Swedish (rye). |
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Screenplays | I wouldn't trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whisky in Ireland (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) Whisky Nick's (Miller's Crossing; writing credit: Joel Coen ; Ethan Coen) | |
Lyrics | He drinks a whisky drink (Tubthumping; performing artist: Chumbawamba) Whisky bottles piling high (Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress); performing artist: Hollies) Drink Scotch whisky all night long (Deacon Blues; performing artist: STEELY DAN) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dem Täter auf der Spur - 10 Kisten Whisky (1967) Whisky y vodka (1965) Un Whisky español (1964) Zwei Whisky und ein Sofa (1963) Vino whisky e acqua salata (1963) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Level party at Whisky Pass Level party of Gilbert R. Fish. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Rogue River - Whisky Creek Cabin, full view of north (uphill) side of cabin. Credit: Becky Brown. |
 | Rum Is Smasho Whisky Too!!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Missouri--The great Whisky Ring trial--Scene in the United States District Court, St. Louis, Monday, February 7th, at the opening of the case of the United States vs. O.E. Babcock, President Grant's private secretary. Mr. E.A. Storrs, one of General Babco. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tourist house, Truro. Interior of tourist bedroom. Clothes and half-filled whisky glass belong to tourists. Truro, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Whisky 4" by Dan Mulligan Commentary: "Whisky in a glass, over ice. ." |
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General Robert E. Lee | Whisky -- I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He brought forth a great stone jar of whisky from the locker and filled the decanter slowly, bending now and then to see how much he had poured in. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He entered the store and walked to the shelves where the whisky bottles stood behind wire netting |
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Economic History | Slovak Rep | Food additives, rice, pulses, nuts, dried fruits and whisky are the major food products imported to Slovakia from the United States. (references) |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Importers are still concerned, however, because the selective consumption tax on whisky (much of which is imported) is 45 percent, while that on rum (nearly all of which is domestically produced) is only 35 percent. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable. |
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| "Whisky" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whisky" is used about 1,726 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 1,726 | 4,872 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Nikka Whisky Distilling Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "whisky": a measure of whisky ♦ a spot of whisky ♦ blended whisky ♦ Bourbon whisky ♦ corn whisky ♦ Crooked whisky ♦ irish whisky ♦ malt whisky ♦ peg of whisky ♦ potato whisky ♦ rye whisky ♦ scotch whisky ♦ tot of whisky ♦ whisky and soda ♦ whisky drink ♦ whisky Jack ♦ whisky neat ♦ whisky on the rocks ♦ whisky Ring ♦ whisky sour. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "whisky": whisky-and-soda, whisky-and-sodas, whisky-blending, whisky-bottle, whisky-bound, whisky-drinkers, whisky-edged, whisky-induced, whisky-making, whisky-producing, whisky-soaked, whisky-soda, whisky-sodden. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "whisky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | whisky (whiskey). (various references) | |
Albanian | uiski (whiskey). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уиски (rye, rye whisky, scotch, tanglefoot, usquebaugh, whiskey), двуколка (buggy, cabriolet, cart, gig, tumbrel, tumbril). (various references) | |
Chinese | 威士忌酒 . (various references) | |
Czech | whisky (whiskey), viska, dvoukolový koèár. (various references) | |
Danish | whisky. (various references) | |
Dutch | whisky (whiskey). (various references) | |
Esperanto | viskio (whiskey). (various references) | |
Finnish | viski (whiskey). (various references) | |
French | whisky (whiskey). (various references) | |
German | Whisky (bourbon, rye, scotch, scotch whiskey, whiskey), zweirädriger Wagen. (various references) | |
Greek | ουίσκυ (rye). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יין שרף (brandy, gin), ויסקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | whisky (hard stuff, john barleycorn, red-eye, tanglefoot, usquebaugh, whiskey). (various references) | |
Indonesian | wiski (scotch). (various references) | |
Irish | uisce beatha (whiskey), fuisce (whiskey). (various references) | |
Italian | wisky, whisky (bourbon, whiskey). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ウィンザー家 (House of Windsor, liqueur candy, weak point, week, weekday, weekend, weekend carpenter, weekend father, weekend painter, weekly, whisker, whisky bonbon, whisky sour, window, window shopping, winter, wizard, yes), ウィジャ板 (blinker, ouija board, virus, whiskey, wings, wink, winker, Wisconsin, wit). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ウイスキー , ウィスキー (whiskey). (various references) | |
Korean | 위스키 (Whiskey, Whiskeys, Whiskies). (various references) | |
Manx | ushtey bea (scotch, usquebaugh). (various references) | |
Papiamen | wiski (whiskey). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iskywhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | uísque (fly paper, tanglefoot, usquebaugh, whiskey). (various references) | |
Romanian | whisky (whiskey). (various references) | |
Russian | виски (eau-de-vie, mountain dew, usquebaugh, whiskey, wisky). (various references) | |
Scottish | uisge-beatha (nm. whisky), romag (meal and whisky). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrsta koktela (screwdriver, stinger, whisky sour). (various references) | |
Spanish | whisky (whiskey). (various references) | |
Swedish | visky. (various references) | |
Tagalog | wíski (whiskey). (various references) | |
Turkish | viski (scotch, whiskey), vískí (whiskey). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | віскі (whiskey), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, youthful, zippy), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton), двоколісний екіпаж (whiskey). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rượu uytky (usquebaugh, whisley). (various references) | |
Welsh | chwisgi. (various references) | |
Zulu | uwiski (whiskey). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Whisky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chimsky, Shefsky, Weiske, whacky, whispy, whizy, wiky, wiskey, wisky. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "whisky" (pronounced wi"skē or hwi"skē) |
| 5 | w i" s k ē | whiskey. |
| 4 | -i" s k ē | frisky, risky. |
| 3 | -s k ē | kolinski, husky, Muskie, musky, pesky. |
| 5 | -w i" s k ē | whiskey. |
| 4 | -i" s k ē | frisky, risky. |
| 3 | -s k ē | kolinski, husky, Muskie, musky, pesky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-k-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: whisk. | |
-2 letters: khis, whys, wish, ywis. | |
-3 letters: his, khi, shy, ski, sky, why, wis. | |
-4 letters: hi, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-k-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: whiskey. | |
+2 letters: whiskery, whiskeys. | |
+3 letters: gawkishly, hawkishly, mawkishly. | |
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