Meanings
present singular third person whiskeyizes · participle present whiskeyizing · participle past whiskeyized · past whiskeyized
- to cause to use whiskey excessively.
It has whiskeyized, brutalized and damned the American Indian.
1900, William Henry Thorne, The Globe, page 562 more examples
I admit there are some recent importations of Catholics who would like to Germanize, Irishize, and whiskeyize America.
1899, The Devil in Robes, Or the Sin of Priests: The Gory Hand of Catholicism Stayed; the Prayers of Protestants Heard, page 318What a horrible sight, a young man so completely whiskeyized that he almost fell asleep talking to a lady.
2014, Minoa D. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Eleanor Williams, Smith Phyllis, The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863–1890, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 121
Origin
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