subs. (Irish).—Illicit whiskey. Also POTSHEEN.
c. 1809. EDGEWORTH, The Absentee, x. ‘A glass of what?’ ‘POTSHEEN, plase your honour;—beca-ase it’s the little whiskey that’s made in the private still or pot; and sheen it’s a fond word for whatsoever we’d like, and for what we have little of, and would make much of.
1836. M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log, ii. Staggering and swaying about under the influence of the POTEEN.
