poteen

Etymology


From, from (from , ultimately from ) +.

Noun

 * 1)  Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.
 * 2) * 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: , 1978, ISBN 978-0-19-211862-2 , page 243:
 * Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
 * 1)  An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
 * Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
 * 1)  An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
 * 1)  An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
 * 1)  An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
 * 1)  An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.

Translations

 * Basque: poitín
 * Bulgarian: самогон
 * French: poteen, potcheen, poitín
 * Galician: poitín
 * German: Poteen, Potcheen
 * Irish: poitín
 * Manx: poteen
 * Polish: poitín
 * Russian: потин
 * Spanish: poitín
 * Welsh: poitín