güisqui
Asturian
Noun
güisqui m
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡwiski/ [ˈɡwis.ki]
- Rhymes: -iski
- Syllabification: güis‧qui
Noun
güisqui m (plural güisquis)
- alternative spelling of whisky
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 74:
- Amalia da un último trago a su güisqui y pide otro. El mío está todavía a medias. Ella me mira, con el vaso vacío entre las manos, y sonríe.
- Amalia takes a last sip of her whisky and asks for another. Mine is still halfway through. She looks at me, her empty glass in her hands, and smiles.
Usage notes
- Rarely used hispanicized spelling suggested by the Real Academia Española.[1]
References
- ^ whisky,güisqui at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
Further reading
- “güisqui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024