whisky
pronunciation
How to pronounce whisky in British English:
UK [ˈwɪski]
How to pronounce whisky in American English:
US [ˈwɪski]
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- Noun:
- a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
Word Origin
- whisky
- whisky: [18] Whisky denotes etymologically ‘water of life’. The word is short for an earlier whiskybae, which was an alteration of usquebaugh; and this in turn was an anglicization of Gaelic uisge beatha ‘water of life’ (Gaelic uisge ‘water’ comes from the same Indo-European source as English water, and beatha ‘life’ is related to Latin vīta ‘life’ and English vital). The distinction in spelling between Scotch whisky and American and Irish whiskey goes back no further than the 19th century. French eau de vie ‘brandy’, literally ‘water of life’, is semantically identical.=> vital, water
- whisky (n.)
- see whiskey.
Example
- 1. The whisky was dependably drinkable even in jungle climes .
- 2. Mr bronfman , heir to a whisky fortune , was known as an unlucky investor .
- 3. Switzerland is predestined to make whisky .
- 4. Whisky takes years to mature .
- 5. Whisky palates vary from country to country .