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scuttaywabo
[Algonk.; cf. Cree iskotawāpō < iskota fire + wāpō water]
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n.
spiritous liquor; firewater. Various spellings.
Quotations
1743
[Brandy Scut ta wop pou] 1768 ..
1853
. . . the traders . . . paid their victims, by way of barter, a villainous compound, yclept New England rum, or, as the Indians call it, skitawahbo.
1913
They had all been preparing to take advantage of the "skoot-e-wha-bo," which Zenith had been mixing with swamp water in the state of dilution most profitable to him since his arrival.
1951
Full of scuttaywabo and boisterous spirits, they milled about. . . .