英语词汇“peat、reek”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

peat-reek

释义

peat-reek
[f. peat¹ + reek n.¹, smoke.]
1. The smoke of a peat-fire. Also attrib.
1803Sir A. Boswell Spirit of Tintoc Poet. Wks. (1871) 120 He smelt like a peat-reek warming pan.1860G. H. K. in Vac. Tour. 164 They aver that it is the loss of the peat-reek and its creosote, which now goes up the grand stone chimney.1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxii. 308 There was a scent of peat-reek in the air.
2. A cant name for whisky distilled over a peat-fire and so supposed to be flavoured with peat-smoke; orig. the produce of a moorland illicit still, ‘mountain dew’; also loosely, Highland whisky generally.
The ‘peat-reek’ flavour is really that of amyl alcohol, due to imperfect rectification.
1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. (1876) 91 A male o' sic food, washed down by a few glasses of peatreek.1862R. H. Story in Athenæum 30 Aug. 270 We sat till twelve o'clock, paying our devotions to the peat-reek.1870J. K. Hunter Studies 131 A shoemaker, who..had imbibed strongly of peat-reek whisky.

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