poteen
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
poteen
- (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish#Adjective|Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.]
- 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-19-211862-2, page 243 ↗:
- Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
- 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-19-211862-2, page 243 ↗:
- (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed#Adjective|unlicensed drinking#Noun|drinking establishment sell#Verb|selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
- French: poteen, potcheen, poitín
- German: Poteen, Potcheen
- Russian: потин
- Spanish: poitín
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