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bourbon whiskey

bourbon whiskey is the alternative form of bourbon.

Meaning of bourbon

Noun

bourbon (countable and uncountable, plural bourbons)

  1. A whiskey distilled in the United States from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels.
  2. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
    • It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17
  3. A Bourbon biscuit.

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Noun capitalized: Bourbon whiskey

Bourbon whiskey

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of bourbon whiskey.

Forms of bourbon whiskey

alternative formBourbon whiskey

Origin of bourbon whiskey

From “Bourbon” (from either Bourbon County, Kentucky or Bourbon Street in New Orleans) + “whiskey”.

Questions about bourbon whiskey

What is bourbon whiskey the alternative form of?
Bourbon whiskey is the alternative form of bourbon.
What part of speech is bourbon whiskey?
Bourbon whiskey is a noun.

Words near bourbon whiskey in the dictionary

  1. bourbon cream
  2. bourbon creams
  3. Bourbon rose
  4. Bourbon roses
  5. Bourbon virus
  6. bourbon whiskey
  7. Bourbonesque
  8. Bourbonian
  9. Bourbonians
  10. bourbonic
  11. Bourbonish

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