poteen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine.

   “The Irish peasantry practice the distillation of that illicit spirituous liquor, so well known by the name of poteen whiskey, with a most unaccountable infatuation.”

2. isim An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.

   “The whisky shops and poteens of Scotland and Ireland, the gin-palaces and beer-shops of England, are an incubus that is dwarfing the good in every section of the community, and forcing out the evil.”