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poteen

/puh-teen, -cheen, -theen, poh-/US // pəˈtin, -ˈtʃin, -ˈθin, poʊ- //UK // (pɒˈtiːn) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the first distillation of a fermented mash in the making of whiskey.
    • : illicitly distilled whiskey.

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Examples

  • And a drop of poteen is a wonderful thing to drive away the melancholy thoughts that haunt and bother so many of us.

  • He introduced a timprance lecturer that towld the boys the poteen was pizenin' thim, an' 'twas wather they must dhrink.

  • I wouldn't thrust one of thim to rub down a horse, nor wid a bottle of poteen.

  • If they 're cows, begad they must have got at that sixty-three gallons of poteen you talked of; for they're all drunk.

  • Their poteen (whiskey) craft, handed down by their Scotch-Irish ancestors, survives today in what outlanders term moonshining.