Noun: whisky
| Singular | whisky |
| Plural | whiskies |
Sample Sentences
-
That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
-
Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the "Stafford Arms", where Lady Stafford tried unsuccessfully to educate the locals to drink beer instead of a strong whisky. [1960 January 26, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 56:]
Nouns inflected like whisky
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae), from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source.
Verbs referencing "whisky"
English Nouns
vodka, Catalan Nouns
whisky, Dutch Nouns
whisky, French Nouns
whisky, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
whisky, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
whisky, Romanian Nouns
whisky, Swedish Nouns
whisky, French Nouns
whiskey, Russian Nouns
вода, German Nouns
Whisky, Portuguese Nouns
uísque, Spanish Nouns
whiskería, Icelandic Nouns
viskí.