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In Praise of Poteen choose

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[UK] J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 17: In Derry around 1800 the cadgers were so confident that the poitín was brought to town [...] in open tubs on donkeys.
at cadger, n.
[UK] J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 142: Muldoon settles down, mug of punch in hand, to tell you of ‘the good old days’ when he made the ‘cratur’.
at creature, the, n.
[Ire] J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen n.p.: One important result of this [introduction of new government regulations, 1780s] was that the quality of legal (or ‘parliament whiskey’ as it was called) declined as distilleries were forced to work faster and faster [BS].
at parliamentary whisky, n.
[UK] J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 118: Tourists seeking Irish souvenirs are not infrequently sold rot gut and told that it’s ‘a drop of the quare stuff’.
at quare stuff (n.) under quare, adj.
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