usquebaugh

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What is the world coming to when fresh beef and usquebaugh are crowded to the wall by bad-smelling water!

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams

We drank your healths together in usquebaugh after our tea: we are the greatest friends alive.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

This, he explained, was usquebaugh, "ta watter of life," and the spice of poetry in the description tempted the Colonel and me to try a dram.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

You may choose, my master, if you are so nice," replied Ralph Fisher; "you may be glad to smell a peat-fire, and usquebaugh too, if you journey long in the fashion you propose.

From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir

Irish, a pouch, a purse; strath, N., a valley; strathspey, Sc., a dance, named from the valley of the river Spey; tocher, N., a dowry; usquebaugh, Sc.,

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)