bourbon

From "bourbon whiskey", originally "Bourbon whiskey", of disputed provenance. Generally taken to derive from Bourbon County, Kentucky, but possibly also from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[1]

Both derive from the French Bourbon dynasty, named for the lordship of French Bourbon l'Archambault. The town's name derives from Borvo, a local Celtic deity associated with hot springs, from Proto-Celtic *borvo (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to be hot, boil”). See also Borvo.

whiskey

• IPA^(key): /bɜː(ɹ)bən/

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  Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən

biscuit

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə(ɹ)bən/, /bɔː(ɹ)bən/

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  Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)bən, -ɔː(ɹ)bən

bourbon (countable and uncountable, plural bourbons)

2. A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels. Made in the United States.
3. A serving of bourbon whiskey.
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17:

     It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure.

4. A Bourbon biscuit.

English bourbon

• IPA^(key): /ˈburbon/, [ˈburbo̞n]
• Rhymes: -urbon

bourbon

1. Synonym of bourbonviski (“bourbon”).

bourbon m (plural bourbons)

1. bourbon

• “bourbon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbouɾbon/ [ˈbou̯ɾ.β̞õn]
• Rhymes: -ouɾbon
• Syllabification: bour‧bon

bourbon m (plural bourbons)

1. bourbon

• “bourbon”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10