bolcane

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noun

Spirits; alcoholic drink; poteen.

OriginFingallian bolcane ← Irish bolcán →
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Meanings

nounbolcane (uncountable)
  1. IrelandobsoleteuncountableSpirits; alcoholic drink; poteen.

    Sheela at her Prayers, and Nabla at her Sneezing, Dermot at his Beads, and Rory at his Bolcane and Usquebah

    1683 Patrick Simmons "Strange and wonderful news from Ireland : of a whale of a prodigious size, being eighty two foot long, cast ashore on the third of this instant February, near Dublin, and there exposed to publick view" (London : broadsheet Printed for S. Kemp)

Origin

  1. Irishbolcán“spirits, strong drink”
  2. Fingallianbolcane
  3. Englishbolcane

From Fingallian bolcane, from Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”). Doublet of volcano and Vulcan.

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Chicago

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