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sweet whiskey

sweet whiskey is the ellipsis of Guthrie's sweet whiskey.

Meaning of Guthrie's sweet whiskey

Noun

Guthrie's sweet whiskey (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of chloroform (A sweet drinking tonic made of chloroform.)
    Synonyms:
    chloroform

Origin of sweet whiskey

From sweet + whiskey. Coined by Samuel Guthrie, later known as "Guthrie's sweet whiskey", and then later on once again as "sweet whiskey".

Questions about sweet whiskey

What is sweet whiskey the ellipsis of?
Sweet whiskey is the ellipsis of Guthrie's sweet whiskey.

Words near sweet whiskey in the dictionary

  1. sweet tooths
  2. sweet upon
  3. sweet vernal grass
  4. sweet water
  5. sweet waters
  6. sweet whiskey
  7. sweet william
  8. sweet williams
  9. sweet woodruff
  10. sweet wormwood
  11. sweet wormwoods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet whiskey (page history and authors); Guthrie's sweet whiskey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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