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whiskies

whiskies is the plural of whisky.

whiskies is the plural of whiskey.

Meaning of whiskey

Noun (1)

whiskey (countable and uncountable, plural whiskeys or whiskies)

  1. (England, Ireland, US) A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley).
    • The exceſſive drinking of ſpirituous liquours, eſpecially whiſkey, is now become ſo common, that more people are killed by them, than by ſmall-pox, fevers, broken limbs, accidents, and all other diſtempers put together. And we are credibly informed, that in one dram ſhop only in this town, there...1753 September, “Historical Chronicle”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XXIII, number VIII, London, page 391
  2. (England, Ireland, US) A drink of whiskey.

Noun (2)

whiskey (plural whiskeys)

  1. (historical) A light gig or carriage drawn by one horse.
    • Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride,
      Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;1772, George Alexander Stevens, “The Portrait”, in Songs, Comic, and Satyrical, Oxford, page 202
    Synonyms:
    tim-whiskey

Phrases with whiskies

Questions about whiskies

What is whiskies the plural of?
Whiskies is the plural of whisky.

Words near whiskies in the dictionary

  1. whiskeytinis
  2. Whiskeytown
  3. whiskful
  4. whiskfuls
  5. whiskied
  6. whiskies
  7. whiskified
  8. WhiskiLeaks
  9. whiskin
  10. whisking
  11. whisking away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiskies (page history and authors); 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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