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Guthrie's sweet whiskey

From Guthrie + sweet whiskey.

A compound of Guthrie + sweet whiskey

Irish gaothair

English Guthrie

The story

Named after Samuel Guthrie, the inventor of chloroform, and combined with his own term, "sweet whiskey", for his product. The product was produced from whiskey combined with chlorinated lime, and is of a sweet nature.

Today it means

noun Synonym of chloroform (A sweet drinking tonic made of chloroform.)

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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