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usquebaugh

noun /ˈʌs.kwɪ.bɔː/

  1. Whiskey or whisky.

    archaic, countable, uncountable

    [R]emember the Lo[rd] Admyrall [Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham] and the Lord Threasurer [Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset] with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.

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[Alt: A glass with a round bottom which tappers to the lip, served with usquebaugh.]

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry usquebaugh (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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