whiskey

Meaning

Noun

• A liquor distilled from the fermented mash of grain (as rye, corn, or barley).
• A drink of whiskey.
• A light gig or carriage; a tim-whiskey.
• Whiskey, the letter W in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Origin

• Borrowed from Irish uisce beatha, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos ("water") + *biwotos, from *biwos, calque of Latin aqua vitae.