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

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

In Morewood's History of Inebriating Liquors, he gives a list of the ingredients used in the composition of usquebaugh, and none of these are Irish productions.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances

Our inn here is an excellent one, as far as I am concerned; and the sallad-oil green, like Irish usquebaugh, nothing was ever so excellent.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

He's a well-plucked one, though, took the lead and kept it, and when it was over, treated us to usquebaugh at Luckey Doughty's store.

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary