whiskeyize

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verb

to cause to use whiskey excessively.

Scrabble 32

Meanings

verbwhiskeyize (third-person singular simple present whiskeyizes, present participle whiskeyizing, simple past and past participle whiskeyized)

present singular third person whiskeyizes · participle present whiskeyizing · participle past whiskeyized · past whiskeyized

  1. to cause to use whiskey excessively.

    It has whiskeyized, brutalized and damned the American Indian.

    1900, William Henry Thorne, The Globe, page 56
    2 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 318

    What 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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