bolcane

English

Etymology

From Fingallian bolcane, from Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”). Doublet of volcano and Vulcan.

Noun

bolcane (uncountable)

1. (Ireland, obsolete) Spirits; alcoholic drink; poteen.
   • 1683 Patrick Simmons "Strange and wonderful news from Ireland : of a whale of a prodigious size, being eighty two foot long, cast ashore on the third of this instant February, near Dublin, and there exposed to publick view" (London : broadsheet Printed for S. Kemp)

     Sheela at her Prayers, and Nabla at her Sneezing, Dermot at his Beads, and Rory at his Bolcane and Usquebah

Fingallian

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish bolcán (“spirits, strong drink”).

Noun

bolcane (uncountable)

1. Spirits; alcoholic drink.
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Bolcane,

     Strong-water.

Descendants

• → English: bolcane