güisqui
Asturian
Noun
güisqui m
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡwiski/ [ˈɡwis.ki]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -iski
- Syllabification: güis‧qui
Noun
güisqui m (plural güisquis)
- alternative form of whisky
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter V, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 74:
- Amalia da un último trago a su güisqui y pide otro. El mío está todavía a medias. Ella me mira, con el vaso vacío entre las manos, y sonríe.
- Amalia takes a last sip of her whisky and asks for another. Mine is still halfway through. She looks at me, her empty glass in her hands, and smiles.
Usage notes
- Rarely used hispanicized spelling suggested by the Real Academia Española.[1]
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “güisqui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “güisqui”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
- “güisqui”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN