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† timˈwhisky Obs.
Also 8–9 -whiskey, (8 timmy whisky, -whiskee).
[A compound of whisky, a light one-horse carriage: first element uncertain.]
A kind of high light carriage, seated for one or two, drawn by a single horse or by two horses driven ‘tandem’; a gig; a whisky.
1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 324 In spite of him these younkers frisky Went out and hir'd a timmy whisky. 1768H. Walpole Let. to Conway 9 Aug., The apprentices that flirt to Epsom in a Tim-whisky. 1769Burke Corr. (1844) I. 182 Lord Chatham passed by my door on Friday morning, in a jimwhiskee [error for tim-] drawn by two horses, one before the other. 1769Chesterfield Lett. to Godson 15 Aug., Many of our young nobility push for it [fame] by driving a Chaise and four, or a Tim Whiskey. 1813Southey in Q. Rev. X. 126. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's xiv, That almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey, or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey. 1837Southey Doctor Interch. xiv. IV. 43 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. |