poteen
the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
illicitly distilled whiskey.
Origin of poteen
1- Also potheen.
Words Nearby poteen
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How to use poteen in a sentence
And a drop of poteen is a wonderful thing to drive away the melancholy thoughts that haunt and bother so many of us.
The Whale and the Grasshopper | Seumas O'BrienHe introduced a timprance lecturer that towld the boys the poteen was pizenin' thim, an' 'twas wather they must dhrink.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)I wouldn't thrust one of thim to rub down a horse, nor wid a bottle of poteen.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)If they 're cows, begad they must have got at that sixty-three gallons of poteen you talked of; for they're all drunk.
Jack Hinton | Charles James LeverTheir poteen (whiskey) craft, handed down by their Scotch-Irish ancestors, survives today in what outlanders term moonshining.
Blue Ridge Country | Jean Thomas
British Dictionary definitions for poteen
poitn
/ (pɒˈtiːn) /
(in Ireland) illicit spirit, often distilled from potatoes
Origin of poteen
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