See Also: pocosin(medicine)
pocosin(dictionary)

dram (oh) and pocosin (iou)


dram (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Old French; Origin: drame or Late Latin dragma, from Greek drachme 'amount held in the hand']
a small alcoholic drink, especially whisky - used especially in Scotland

pocosin (iou)



pocosin noun. US. Also poquosin. M17.
[Prob. from Algonquian poquosin.]
In the southern US: a tract of low swampy ground, usu. wooded; a marsh, a swamp.