(n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(3) With the demand for Irish whiskey out there in the world this is a no-brainer.
(4) Among five alcoholic beverages (shochu, beer, sake, whiskey and wine), both sake and beer showed a dose-response relationship with the risk of adenomatous polyps although the association with beer was less striking.
(5) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
(6) Orange juice significantly reduced 65Zn absorption and milk also showed this tendency, but tea, whiskey, wine or beer had no significant effect on the absorption of 65Zn from the turkey meal.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson Among recent openings are Batch Café & Bar , which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House , which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras , an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucson’s food is multicultural), and Charro Steak , a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
(8) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
(9) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
(10) But BAT wasn’t concerned by his record in banking, looking instead to his 22 years with Irish Distillers, during which time he was credited with turning Jameson whiskey into an internationally-recognised brand.
(11) All had tests of granulocyte, humoral, and cell-mediated immune function before and at the end of eight to 28 days' intake of approximately 0.75 liter of 100-proof whiskey per day.
(12) Cirrhotic patients were rarely nondrinkers but drank whiskey excessively.
(13) Owing to the small numbers of subjects drinking one beverage exclusively, it was necessary to classify drinkers as consumers of predominantly beer, wine, or hard liquor (i.e., more than 50% of their whiskey equivalents of alcohol derived from a specific beverage).
(14) Mailer responded at a Manhattan dinner party in 1977 by throwing a glass of whiskey in Vidal's face, head-butting him and then throwing a punch.
(15) Lead poisoning arising from "moonshine whiskey" drinking has been associated with a rise in plasma renin activity.
(16) In a bucolic corner of the County Kerry coastline, pub chain owner Oliver Hughes has opened one of a few independent whiskey distilleries in Ireland.
(17) Wine and whiskey are directly related to rectal cancer, but beer is the only alcoholic beverage that displays a statistically significant dose-response (P = 0.008).
(18) It was set in an office Christmas party and politely reminded women: “Four single whiskeys, and the risk of accident can be twice as great… If he’s been drinking, don’t let him drive.” Since then the number of deaths caused by drink-drive accidents has fallen from 1,640, when detailed reporting began in 1979, to 280 in 2012 (although there were 9,990 casualties resulting from 6,670 drink-drive accidents ).
(19) I didn't crack into the whiskey too much, but I think Maslow would agree that the quality and quantity of food on offer allowed me to push myself to think about bigger, meatier things than normal.
(20) Whiskey and sugar careening through my system, I defy the orders on my ticket not to photograph anything, and I tweet a picture of the bar menu.
Whisky
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Whiskey
(n.) A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given its timing, he wrote, the book "can't help being about the war", but then whisky had always been "up to its pretty bottle neck" in politics.
(2) Johnson no doubt also sampled the local whisky – he described the place much more favourably than most others they stayed at during their Hebridean tour.
(3) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
(4) Between 2008 and 2013, the average annual growth in sales of whisky by UK manufacturers was 6% but there was a drop of 1.6% in 2014.
(5) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
(6) However, City sources said that SABMiller is likely to launch a fierce defence against a deal and could instead look to combine with Diageo , the British owner of Guinness and Johnnie Walker whisky.
(7) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(8) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
(9) Its infamous clubs – The Viper Room, Whisky A Go Go – are the backdrops for a thousand rock memoirs; its vertiginous hills contain more celebrity homes per square mile than anywhere else in the world.
(10) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(11) The mutagenicity of black tea but not that of whisky was suppressed by catalase.
(12) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
(13) Using the whole body counter technique, they show that iron absorption is lowered significantly by addition to the test dose of either normal or dealcoholized whisky, but that there is no difference between these two latter groups.
(14) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(15) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
(16) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
(17) After all, it was Neuberger who chose not to follow his fellow law lords into the supreme court when it was created three years ago, telling me in a much-quoted BBC interview that the court had been created "as a result of what appears to have been a last-minute decision over a glass of whisky".
(18) Just down the road is the Talisker Whisky Distillery, while if you fancy a dram and a tune, the inn in Carbost has regular live music.
(19) According to the drinks and retail industry-funded website, drinkaware.co.uk , one unit of alcohol equates to approximately one shot of whisky, a third of a pint of beer or half of a standard 175ml glass of wine.
(20) said the dustman, scooping up discarded election posters, wine and whisky bottles, beer cans and other rubbish.