milk punch

English

Noun

milk punch (usually uncountable, plural milk punches)

1. A hot Irish drink, scáiltín, made from equal amounts of hot whiskey and milk.
   • 1946-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 3:

     He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.

2. A cold beverage of milk, bourbon, sugar, and vanilla extract, common in New Orleans.