| 单词 | peat-reek whisky |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeat-reek whisky 1. colloquial. Highland whisky, esp. that (illicitly) distilled over a peat fire and supposedly flavoured with peat-smoke. Also more fully peat-reek whisky.The ‘peat-reek’ flavour (see sense 2) is chiefly that of amyl alcohol, produced by imperfect rectification. 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 1792 Caledonian Mercury 2 July 1/2 Real peet reek whisky 4s. 0d. per gal. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 91 A male o' sic food, washed down by a few glasses of peatreek. 1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. 131 A shoemaker, who..had imbibed strongly of peat-reek whisky. 1891 R. Ford Thistledown 322 And a ‘good-willie waucht’ of the ‘rale peat reek’. 1983 Times 17 Sept. 3 A lovely, big, classy, peat reek malt this. < as lemmas |
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