scotch whisky

Questions about scotch whisky

What does scotch whisky mean?

scotch whisky means "whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still".

What is another word for scotch whisky?

Close synonyms include Scotch, Scotch whiskey, malt whiskey, malt whisky, Scotch malt whiskey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scotch whisky a common word?

scotch whisky is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.