or tim-whiskey, timmy-whiskey, subs. (old).—A light one-horse chaise without a hood (GROSE).
1772. BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 481.
| In spite of him these youths so frisky, | |
| Went out and hir’d a TIMMY-WHISKY. |
1774. FOOTE, The Cozeners, i. A journey to Tyburn in a TIM-WHISKY and two would have concluded your travels.
1809. BYRON, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, i. 69.
| Thy coach of Hackney, WHISKEY, one-horse chair, | |
| And humblest gig through sundry suburbs whirl. |
d. 1832. CRABBE, Works, II. 174. WHISKEYS and gigs and curricles.
1834. SOUTHEY, The Doctor, Interch. xiv. It is not like the difference between … a WHISKEY and a TIM-WHISKEY, that is to say, no difference at all.
1884. S. DOWELL, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England, III. 227. The increased taxation of the curricle had the effect of bringing into existence the less expensive gig, a development or an imitation of a two-wheeled carriage known in the country as a WHISKEY.
