bald-facen.

Etymology: bald adj. 2.

U.S.

1. The widgeon (also called bald-head, -pate).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon)

bald-face1709

bald-pate1813

poacher1888

wheat-duck1888

1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 151 The bald or white Faces are a good Fowl. Marg. Bald-Faces.

1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 253 Went a ducking between breakfast and dinner and killd 2 Mallards and 5 bald faces.

2. A variety of whisky. slang.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies

peat-reek1792

Monongahela1805

rye?1808

corn1820

small-still (whisky)1822

bald-face1840

corn-whiskey1843

raw1844

Bourbon1846

sod corn1857

valley tan1860

straight1862

forty-rod whisky1863

rock and rye1878

sour-mash1885

grain-whisky1887

forty rod lightning1889

Suntory1942

Wild Turkey1949

mash1961

pot still1994

1840 Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 28 Apr. He called lustily for a horn of bald-face and molasses.

1848 Knickerbocker 32 402 What is classically denominated ‘bald-face’, or old brown whiskey.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 581 Bald-face, one of the many slang terms under which bad whiskey passes in the West.

Compounds

General attributive. (See quot.)

ΚΠ

1876 Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 142 Green Martin tells of a bear, rarely seen in the mountains which old hunters call the bald-face bear.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	bald-face
释义	bald-facen. Etymology: bald adj. 2. U.S. 1. The widgeon (also called bald-head, -pate). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas americana (American widgeon) bald-face1709 bald-pate1813 poacher1888 wheat-duck1888 1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 151 The bald or white Faces are a good Fowl. Marg. Bald-Faces. 1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 253 Went a ducking between breakfast and dinner and killd 2 Mallards and 5 bald faces. 2. A variety of whisky. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies peat-reek1792 Monongahela1805 rye?1808 corn1820 small-still (whisky)1822 bald-face1840 corn-whiskey1843 raw1844 Bourbon1846 sod corn1857 valley tan1860 straight1862 forty-rod whisky1863 rock and rye1878 sour-mash1885 grain-whisky1887 forty rod lightning1889 Suntory1942 Wild Turkey1949 mash1961 pot still1994 1840 Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 28 Apr. He called lustily for a horn of bald-face and molasses. 1848 Knickerbocker 32 402 What is classically denominated ‘bald-face’, or old brown whiskey. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 581 Bald-face, one of the many slang terms under which bad whiskey passes in the West. Compounds General attributive. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1876 Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 142 Green Martin tells of a bear, rarely seen in the mountains which old hunters call the bald-face bear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1709
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