tim-whiskey

短语

词形变化

tim-whiskeys 复数 tim-whiskeys tim-whiskies tim-whiskies 复数

别名

tim whisky tim whiskey tim-whisky

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of whiskey, a kind of light carriage drawn by one horse.

    历史

    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.

    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.

词源

From tim + whiskey, from whisk + -ey.

来源：wiktionary