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tim-whisky

tim-whisky is the alternative form of tim-whiskey.

Meaning of tim-whiskey

Noun

tim-whiskey (plural tim-whiskeys or tim-whiskies)

  1. (historical) Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse.
    • With Two Act Pieces what machines agree?
      Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis,
      Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225
    Synonyms:
    whiskey

Forms of tim-whisky

pluraltim-whiskies
alternative formtim whisky

Origin of tim-whisky

From tim + whisky, from whisk + -y.

Questions about tim-whisky

What is tim-whisky the alternative form of?
Tim-whisky is the alternative form of tim-whiskey.

Words near tim-whisky in the dictionary

  1. Tim Whoreton's
  2. Tim's
  3. tim-whiskey
  4. tim-whiskeys
  5. tim-whiskies
  6. tim-whisky
  7. Tim.
  8. Timaeus
  9. Timagami
  10. Timala
  11. timaliid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tim-whisky (page history and authors); tim-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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