usquebaugh
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Then there's the frightening nursery rhyme: The Irishman loved usquebaugh, The Scot loved ale called Bluecap.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton
Irish, a pouch, a purse; strath, N., a valley; strathspey, Sc., a dance, named from the valley of the river Spey; tocher, N., a dowry; usquebaugh, Sc.,
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
We drank your healths together in usquebaugh after our tea: we are the greatest friends alive.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George
This, he explained, was usquebaugh, "ta watter of life," and the spice of poetry in the description tempted the Colonel and me to try a dram.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.
A mourning hat-band; and half a bottle of usquebaugh.
From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir
