willie-waught

willie-waught
   obsolete Scottish
   a drink of intoxicant
   Good willie meant hospitable and waught meant to drink deeply:
    'And we'll take a right guid willie-waught' was changed to, 'We'll give a right guid hearty shake', in deference to temperance principles. (E. Murray, 1977, writing of Sir James Murray, the creator of the OED and domestically the bowdlerizer of Robert Burns. He also omitted from the OED the common vulgarisms noted by Grose, and other taboo words)

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