potheen

American  

[puh-theen, -teen, -cheen, poh-] / pəˈθin, -ˈtin, -ˈtʃin, poʊ- /

noun

1. poteen.

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potheen British  

/ pɒˈθiːn, pɒˈtiːn /

noun

1. a rare variant of poteen

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Example Sentences

Oh, ne'er may the potheen pass round But—Erin so beseeches— The Isle may with one theme resound,— O'Brien—and his breeches!

From Project Gutenberg

As I waited for the whistle that was the signal for the beat to begin, I viewed the proceedings up to the point where Sullivan, now warming artistically to his work, crowned the arrangement with the bottle of potheen.

From Project Gutenberg

And then began a long procession of barefooted old women, pretending to offer homeknit woollen socks and home-distilled potheen for sale, but really begging—begging most insistently, running along beside the ponies with their poor red feet slopping in the mud or slipping over the stones; voluble with their blessings if they got a small coin, and plainly thinking themselves insulted if they didn't.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet I think Geoffrey would willingly have bartered potheen, partridge, and a good deal more, for just one last glance at Mona's beautiful face before parting.

From Project Gutenberg

If The McMurrough chose to imprison his strange and unpopular kinsman, it was nothing to them; nor a matter into which gentlemen eating at his table and drinking his potheen and claret were called upon to peer too closely.

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