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usquebaugh

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us⋅que⋅baugh

  [uhs-kwi-baw, -bah]
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–noun
(in Scotland and Ireland) whiskey.
Origin:
1575–85; < Ir uisce beatha or ScotGael uisge beatha; see whiskey
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us·que·baugh   (ŭs'kwĭ-bô', -bä')   
n.   Irish & Scots
Whiskey.

[Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha and Irish Gaelic uisce beatha, water of life, whiskey (translation of Medieval Latin aqua vītae) : Old Irish uisce, water; see wed-1 in Indo-European roots + Old Irish bethad, genitive of bethu, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.]
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