poteen

== English == === Etymology === From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pəˈtiːn/, /pəˈtʃiːn/ (Ireland) IPA(key): /pəˈtiːn/, /ˈpɒ.tiːn/, /-tjiːn/, /-t͡ʃiːn/ Rhymes: -iːn Hyphenation: pot‧een === Noun === poteen (countable and uncountable, plural poteens) (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.] 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, →ISBN, page 243: Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.) (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey. ==== Alternative forms ==== poitin potcheen potheen potteen ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === poitín on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Petone, pontee == Spanish == === Verb === poteen inflection of potear: third-person plural present subjunctive third-person plural imperative