whiskeyize

English

Etymology

From whiskey +‎ -ize.

Verb

whiskeyize (third-person singular simple present whiskeyizes, present participle whiskeyizing, simple past and past participle whiskeyized)

1. to cause to use whiskey excessively.
   • 1899, The Devil in Robes, Or the Sin of Priests: The Gory Hand of Catholicism Stayed; the Prayers of Protestants Heard, page 318:

     I admit there are some recent importations of Catholics who would like to Germanize, Irishize, and whiskeyize America.

   • 1900, William Henry Thorne, The Globe, page 56:

     It has whiskeyized, brutalized and damned the American Indian.

   • 2014, Minoa D. Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, Eleanor Williams, Smith Phyllis, The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863–1890, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 121:

     What a horrible sight, a young man so completely whiskeyized that he almost fell asleep talking to a lady.