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poteen, potheen|pɒˈtiːn, pɒˈθiːn|
Also 9 potsheen, potteen, pottheen.
[a. Ir. poitín (pɔˈtjin) ‘little pot’, dim. of pota, puite pot n.1: short for uisge poitín ‘little-pot whisky’.]
Whisky distilled in Ireland in small quantities, privately, i.e. the produce of an illicit still.
1812M. Edgeworth Absentee x, Potsheen, plase your honour;—becaase it's the little whiskey that's made in the private still or pot; and sheen, becaase it's a fond word for whatsoever we'd like, and for what we have little of, and would make much of. 1820Blackw. Mag. VII. 478 Whiskey too was made, They call'd Potheen, and sold so very cheap. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. x. 87 ‘That is ‘poteen’, Mr. Massingbred’, said the host. ‘It's the small still that never paid the King a farthing’. 1885Tennyson Tomorrow xvi, Yer Honour 'ill give me a thrifle to dhrink yer health in potheen.
b. attrib. and Comb., as poteen still, poteen whisky.
1826J. Banim O'Hara Tales I. xi. 273 Two [decanters] containing cold pottheen punch. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 73 The smell of what, in Ireland, is called potteen whiskey. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxxvi, There's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there. 1903W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 148 He supplies the potheen-makers with grain from his own fields. |