geneva

1) A spirit distilled from grain, and flavoured with juniper berries.

1720 of ginnevy

1734 had got some Geneva which made her sometimes not know what she said or did, West Riding. The shortened form ‘gin’ is on record from 1714.

places West Riding
dates 1720 1734

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