deadyn.
/ˈdɛdi/ slang.
A name for gin, or for a particular quality of gin. [So called apparently from the name of the distiller. The London Directory for 1812 has D. Deady, Distiller and Brandy-merchant, Sol's Row, Tottenham Court Rd.]
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1812 Sporting Mag. 39 138 At a public house where Sam had been copiously sipping Deady's max.]
1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress App. To quaff Our Deady o'er some State Affairs.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 388 Some of the Whole-hoggery in the House of Commons he would designate by Deady, or Wet and Heavy, some by weak tea, others by Blue-Ruin.
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