corn whiskey
noun
: whiskey distilled from a mash made up of not less than 80 percent corn compare bourbon
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web It’s a corn whiskey with Arnold Palmer, and then a touch of ginger to it. 
Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022 This looks to be another interesting blend, and includes the unusual addition of eight-year-old Georgia bourbon, 17-year-old Tennessee whiskey, and 12-year-old Kentucky bourbon and Canadian corn whiskey. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 July 2022 The ancestral corn whiskey is a tantalizing outlier in the land of tequila and mezcal. Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021 McLean was a bruising 6-foot-5 catcher with a taste for corn whiskey who, days after the suffrage game, would be kicked off the team for brawling with Giants manager John McGraw in the lobby of a St. Louis hotel. Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020 In Faulkner’s early novel Flags in the Dust, for instance, a white Southerner offers some black musicians a drink from his jug of corn whiskey. Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2020 This is a really small operation, but a tour will give you the chance to taste through both the bourbon and the corn whiskeys. Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2018 Beverage director Jeremy Simpson, who also works at Ostrich Farm, created the cocktail program for the restaurant with drinks such as the Brown Buffalo, made with Oaxacan corn whiskey, bourbon, chipotle syrup and Angostura bitters. Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 10 July 2018 In colonial America, making corn whiskey was a way to earn money or barter for goods and services. Alan Ashe, CNN, 7 June 2018 See More
Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2022 This looks to be another interesting blend, and includes the unusual addition of eight-year-old Georgia bourbon, 17-year-old Tennessee whiskey, and 12-year-old Kentucky bourbon and Canadian corn whiskey. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 July 2022 The ancestral corn whiskey is a tantalizing outlier in the land of tequila and mezcal. Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021 McLean was a bruising 6-foot-5 catcher with a taste for corn whiskey who, days after the suffrage game, would be kicked off the team for brawling with Giants manager John McGraw in the lobby of a St. Louis hotel. Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2020 In Faulkner’s early novel Flags in the Dust, for instance, a white Southerner offers some black musicians a drink from his jug of corn whiskey. Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 18 Aug. 2020 This is a really small operation, but a tour will give you the chance to taste through both the bourbon and the corn whiskeys. Laura Ratliff, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 July 2018 Beverage director Jeremy Simpson, who also works at Ostrich Farm, created the cocktail program for the restaurant with drinks such as the Brown Buffalo, made with Oaxacan corn whiskey, bourbon, chipotle syrup and Angostura bitters. Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 10 July 2018 In colonial America, making corn whiskey was a way to earn money or barter for goods and services. Alan Ashe, CNN, 7 June 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1780, in the meaning defined above