different between voteen vs poteen

English

Etymology

From devotee + -een (from Irish -ín).

Noun

voteen (plural voteens)

1. (Ireland) An ostentatiously pious person.

Synonyms

• crawthumper

Anagrams

• Veneto

English

Etymology

From Irish poitín (“little pot; poteen”), from pota (“pot”) (from Middle English potte, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“type of vessel”)) + -ín (“suffix forming diminutives”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p??t?i?n/, /p??ti?n/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /p??t(?)i?n/, /?p?.t(?)i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Hyphenation: pot?een

Noun

poteen (countable and uncountable, plural poteens)

1. (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.]
   • 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, ?ISBN, page 243:

     Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning ‘brisk’? Nay, here the Language warps: / ’Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
2. (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.

Alternative forms

• poitin
• potcheen
• potheen
• potteen

Translations

References

Further reading

• poitín on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Petone, pontee

Manx

Noun

poteen m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. poteen

Mutation

Spanish

Verb

poteen

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of potear.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of potear.