bolcane

== English == === Etymology === From Fingallian bolcane, from Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”). Doublet of volcano and Vulcan. === Noun === bolcane (uncountable) (Ireland, obsolete) Spirits; alcoholic drink; poteen. 1683 Patrick Simmons "Strange and wonderful news from Ireland : of a whale of a prodigious size, being eighty two foot long, cast ashore on the third of this instant February, near Dublin, and there exposed to publick view" (London : broadsheet Printed for S. Kemp) Sheela at her Prayers, and Nabla at her Sneezing, Dermot at his Beads, and Rory at his Bolcane and Usquebah == Fingallian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”). === Noun === bolcane (uncountable) Spirits; alcoholic drink. 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"): ==== Descendants ==== → English: bolcane