whisky

• whiskey (Ireland, US)

Attested since the early 18th century. Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae). From Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”). Compare aquavit, from Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪski/, /ˈʍɪski/

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• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

1. (chiefly Britain and Canada) An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels.
2. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A drink of this liquor.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp‎:

     That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

The regional spellings whisky and whiskey are also used world-wide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but bourbon whiskey.

Borrowed from English whisky.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈwis.ki/

whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

1. whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky f

1. whisky, whiskey

• whisky in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• whisky in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪski/

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• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)

1. (a glass of) whisky, whiskey

• ouisqui (rare)
• ouisquie (rare)
• ouiski (rare)
• whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /wis.ki/

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whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

1. whisky, whiskey

• visqui (rare)

• “whisky” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky m (plural [please provide])

1. whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

whisky (plural whiskyt)

1. whisky

• whisky in Katersat

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): [ˈviski]
• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

whisky (plural whiskyk)

1. whisky (US, Ireland: whiskey)

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky m (invariable)

1. whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)

1. whisky

• “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)

1. whisky

• “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɨs.kʲi/, /ˈwis.kʲi/

whisky n

1. whisky (US, Ireland: whiskey)

Indeclinable.

• whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. Alternative form of uísque

Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuj.ski/, /ˈwi.ski/

whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

1. whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋis.ki/

whisky f nondeclinable

1. whisky, whiskey

• whiskový

• whisky in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• güisqui

Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”). More at whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiski/; IPA^(key): /ˈɡwiski/

whisky m (uncountable)

1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky c

1. Whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)