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whiskybae

whiskybae is the obsolete form of usquebaugh.

Meaning of usquebaugh

Noun

usquebaugh (countable and uncountable, plural usquebaughs)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, archaic) Whiskey or whisky.
    • [R]emember the Lo[rd] Admyrall [Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham] and the Lord Threasurer [Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset] with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.1600 October 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Cecil, “[Letter] X”, in John MacLean, editor, Letters from Sir Robert Cecil to Sir George Carew (Camden Series; 88), [London]: […] [John...

Questions about whiskybae

What is whiskybae the obsolete form of?
Whiskybae is the obsolete form of usquebaugh.

Words near whiskybae in the dictionary

  1. whisky tango foxtrot
  2. whisky-jack
  3. whisky-jacks
  4. whisky-john
  5. whisky-johns
  6. whiskybae
  7. whiskyfied
  8. whiskyish
  9. whiskyjack
  10. whiskyjacks
  11. WhiskyLeaks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiskybae (page history and authors); usquebaugh (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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