var. USQUEBAUGH. (Cf. 16th cent. iskiebae.)

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1792.  Galloway, Poems, 73. I told him I ne’er drank no Whiskybae.

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1792.  Statist. Acc. Scot., III. 525. A refreshment … consisting generally of whisquy-beath, or some foreign liquor, butter and cheese.

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