Whiskey - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈwɪskɪ|  American pronunciation of the word whiskey
Brit.  |ˈwɪskɪ|  British pronunciation of the word whiskey

noun

- a liquor made from fermented mash of grain (syn: whisky)

Extra examples

They distill the whiskey from malted barley.

...you could smell the whiskey on her sottish aunt's breath from a block away!...

Some say whiskey will run a man crazy.

He drank a small whiskey.

'A whiskey, please.' 'Let's see the color of your money first.'

They dared Ed to steal a bottle of his father's whiskey.

George kept a bottle of whiskey under his bed.

Lay off that whiskey!

Is there any of my whiskey left?

They were bootlegging whiskey

'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' or 'Scotch plaid'

Word forms

noun
singular: whiskey
plural: whiskeys
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