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scuttaywabo [Algonk.; cf. Cree iskotawāpō < iskota fire + wāpō water] 
n. spiritous liquor; firewater. Various spellings.
- 1743 (1949) [Brandy Scut ta wop pou] 1768 ..
- 1853 . . . the traders . . . paid their victims, by way of barter, a villainous compound, yclept New England rum, or, as the Indians call it, skitawahbo.
- 1913 They had all been preparing to take advantage of the "skoot-e-wha-bo," which Zenith had been mixing with swamp water in the state of dilution most profitable to him since his arrival.
- 1951 Full of scuttaywabo and boisterous spirits, they milled about. . . .
- 1743 (1949) [Brandy Scut ta wop pou] 1768 ..