Word Meanings - SWITCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Whisking. Coombe.

Related words: (words related to SWITCHY)

• WHISKYFIED; WHISKEYFIED
  Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. Thackeray.
• WHISKY RING; WHISKEY RING
  A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President Grant to defraud the government of the excise taxes. The frauds were detected in 1875 through the efforts of the Secretary of the Treasury. B. H. Bristow,
• WHISKIN
  A shallow drinking bowl. Ray.
• WHISKEY; WHISKY
  A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim- whiskey.
• WHISK
  A game at cards; whist. Taylor .
• WHISKY; WHISKEY
  An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from
• WHISKET
  A small lathe for turning wooden pins. (more info) 1. A basket; esp., a straw provender basket. Halliwell.
• WHISKERLESS
  Being without whiskers.
• WHISKER
  That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers. 4. A hair of the beard. 5. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or
• WHISKEY
  See LIQUOR
• WHISKERED
  Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks. The whiskered vermin race. Grainger. (more info) 1. Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race. Cowper.
• WHISKING
  1. Sweeping along lightly. 2. Large; great.
• BOURBON WHISKY
  See WHISKY
• TIM-WHISKEY
  A kind of carriage. See Whiskey. Southery.
• COOMB; COOMBE
  A hollow in a hillside. See Comb, Combe.