tim-whiskey
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.71 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225, With Two Act Pieces what machines agree? Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis, Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee."
- "It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey."
- "1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43, It is not like the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim-Whiskey, that is to say no difference at all."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
tim-whiskeys (plural)
tim-whiskies (plural)
tim whiskey (alternative)
tim-whisky (alternative)
tim whisky (alternative)