usquebaugh
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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 George Saintsbury
Then there's the frightening nursery rhyme: The Irishman loved usquebaugh, The Scot loved ale called Bluecap.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
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 Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
This was called usquebaugh, and had a strange peaty flavor, which was at first very unpleasant to them, but to which before they left Scotland they became quite accustomed.
From Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
To make verses to the widow, on the other hand, came as easy as sipping usquebaugh or metheglin.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
