Obs. Also 8–9 -whiskey, (8 timmy whisky, -whiskee). [A compound of WHISKY, a light one-horse carriage: first element uncertain.] A kind of high light carriage, seated for one or two, drawn by a single horse or by two horses driven ‘tandem’; a gig; a whisky.
1764. T. Brydges, Homer Travest. (1797), II. 324. In spite of him these younkers frisky Went out and hir’d a timmy whisky.
1768. H. Walpole, Lett. to Conway, 9 Aug. The apprentices that flirt to Epsom in a Tim-whisky.
1769. Burke, Corr. (1844), I. 182. Lord Chatham passed by my door on Friday morning, in a jimwhiskee [error for tim-] drawn by two horses, one before the other.
1769. Chesterf., Lett. to Godson, 15 Aug. Many of our young nobility push for it [fame] by driving a Chaise and four, or a Tim Whiskey.
1813. Southey, in Q. Rev., X. Oct., 126. The late Sir John Danvers was one day asked what was the difference between a baptist and an anabaptist, and he replied, much the same as between a whiskey and a tim-whiskey.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, xiv. That almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey, or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.
1837. Southey, Doctor, Interch. xiv. IV. 43. 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.
