Noun: tim-whiskey
| Singular | tim-whiskey |
| Plural | tim-whiskeys; tim-whiskies |
Sample Sentences
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1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225,
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With Two Act Pieces what machines agree?
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Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis,
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Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.
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It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey. [1824, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in Saint Ronan's Well, volume 2, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, page 6:]
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1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43,
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It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey, that is to say no difference at all.
Nouns inflected like tim-whiskey
whiskey,
whimsey,
smiley,
slavey,
rent money,
ready money,
fiat money,
foreign money,
seed money,
bar money,
ship money,
dorey,
gooey,
coney,
jakey,
poney,
prize money,
drinks trolley,
credit money,
tim-whiskey, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From tim + whiskey, from whisk + -ey.