bolcane
English
Etymology
From Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”)
Noun
bolcane (uncountable)
- (Ireland, obsolete) spirits, strong 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
- 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"):
- Bolcane, Strong-water.
- 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)