whisky

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪski/, /ˈʍɪski/

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• Rhymes: -ɪski
• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae), from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source.

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

2. (Scotland, Canada, Australia) Alternative form of whiskey, an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain, usually aged in oak barrels, (particularly) Scotch; a drink of this liquor. [early 18th century]

   Synonym: (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, dated or archaic) usquebaugh

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

• The regional spellings whisky and whiskey (from the Irish form of the same Gaelic word) are used worldwide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but Irish whiskey and bourbon whiskey.

From whisk +‎ -y.

whisky (plural whiskies)

1. (historical) Alternative form of whiskey (“a light gig or carriage”).
   • 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 7-8,^[1]

     Look into old age, you will see avarice joined to poverty—letchery, gout, impotency, like three monkeys, or London bucks, in a one-horse whisky, driving to the Devil.

   • 1797, Charlotte Lennox, chapter 4, in The History of Sir George Warrington‎^[2], volume 1, London: J. Bell, page 46:

     At the appointed time Mr. Kettering’s one-horse chaise, or rather whisky, drove up to the door; for, as it was principally intended for him to visit his patients, when disinclined to mount his horse, it was built in the lightest manner, and without a head, that it might move with the greater expedition.

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈwis.ki]

whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

1. whisky, whiskey

• viska (colloquial)

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪskɪ]
• Rhymes: -ɪskɪ
• Hyphenation: whi‧s‧ky

whisky f (indeclinable)

1. whisky, whiskey

• “whisky”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “whisky”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “whisky”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)

1. whiskey

From English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪski/

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• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)

1. (a glass of) , whiskey

< English whiskey

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiski/, [ˈʋis̠k̟i]
• IPA^(key): /ˈwiski/, [ˈwis̠k̟i]
• Rhymes: -iski

whisky

1. alternative form of viski (“whiskey”)
2. alternative form of wiski (“Finnish spelling alphabet for "W"”)

• ouisqui, ouisquie, ouiski (all rare)
• whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /wis.ki/

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whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

1. whisky, whiskey

   Synonym: (rare) visqui

• “whisky”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English whisky.

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. whisky, whiskey

From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

whisky (plural whiskyt)

1. whisky

• whisky in Katersat

From English whisky.

• IPA^(key): [ˈviski] (phonetic respelling: viszki)
• Hyphenation: whis‧ky
• Rhymes: -ki

whisky (plural whiskyk)

1. whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwis.ki/, /uˈis.ki/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iski
• Hyphenation: whì‧sky

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, alternative form of usque, shortening of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (literally “water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (literally “water of life”).

whisky m (invariable)

1. (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey

• whisky¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.

whisky m (invariable)

1. whisky (a kind of light carriage)

• whisky² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)

1. whisky

• “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)

1. whisky

• “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɘs.ki/, /ˈwis.ki/

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• Rhymes: -ɘski, -iski
• Syllabification: whis‧ky

whisky f (indeclinable)

1. whisky, whiskey

• whisky in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

• Homophone: uísque (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: whis‧ky

whisky m (plural whiskies)

1. alternative form of uísque

• uischi

Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ski/, /ˈuj.ski/

whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

1. whisky, whiskey

Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈviski]

whisky f nondeclinable

1. whisky, whiskey

• whiskový

• “whisky”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• güisqui, wiski
• juisque (New Mexico)

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiski/ [ˈwis.ki]

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• Rhymes: -iski
• Syllabification: whis‧ky

whisky m (plural whiskys)

1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “whisky”, 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
• whisky on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

From English whisky.

whisky c

1. whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)

• whiskyglas (“old fashioned glass”)
• virre (“whiskey (slang)”)