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tiswin

tiswin noun: an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn by indigenous Americans.

Noun

tiswin (uncountable)

  1. An alcoholic beverage brewed from corn by indigenous Americans.
    • They were drunk on tiswin they'd brewed and there had been shooting in the night two nights running and an incessant clamor for whiskey.1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter XVI, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC

Forms of tiswin

alternative formtizwin

Questions about tiswin

What does tiswin mean?
Tiswin means an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn by indigenous Americans.
What part of speech is tiswin?
Tiswin is a noun.

Words near tiswin in the dictionary

  1. tissy
  2. Tissyman
  3. TIST
  4. Tiswadi
  5. tiswas
  6. tiswin
  7. Tisza
  8. Tiszabecs
  9. Tiszatenyő
  10. Tisău
  11. tit

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