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▪ I. drinking, vbl. n.|ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ|
[f. drink v.]
1. The action or habit denoted by the vb. drink; spec. the use of intoxicating liquor, or indulgence therein to excess.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Sume men ladeð here lif on etinge and on drinkinge alse swin. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (E.E.T.S.) 58 Wythdrawe þe fro mekyl drynkynge. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. ii. 91 As for natural wine..the drinking therof is forbidden them. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §313 Finding their own provisions of eating and drinking. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocracy Wks. (Bohn.) II. 86 Gaming, racing, drinking, and mistresses, bring them down.
2. An occasion of drinking; a convivial revel.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 7 At euery tauerne in the yere, A solempne dyryge is songe there, With a grete drynkynge. 1522Bury Wills (Camden) 118 A busshell and halffe of malte to be browne..to fynde a drinkinge vpon Ascention Even. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 99 You contend in your drinkings..who should drink most.
3. concr. in dial. use; see quots.
1552Huloet, Drinckinge geuen to workemen after dinner, colosium. 1828Craven Dial., Drinkings, beer given to labourers before and after dinner.
4. Comb.
a. with sense ‘used for drinking’, as drinking-bowl, drinking-cup, drinking-fountain, drinking funnel (N.Z.), drinking-horn, drinking-liquor, drinking-place, drinking-pool, drinking-pot, drinking-trough, drinking-vessel, drinking-water, etc.;
b. ‘used for the sale or consumption of drink’, as drinking-booth, drinking club, drinking-house, drinking-inn, drinking-place, drinking-room, drinking-saloon, drinking-shop.
1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 334 The neatness of their *drinking-booths.
1852Grote Greece ii. lxxvii. X. 208 Two silver *drinking-bowls.
1967E. Paul Jewels in Jeopardy i. 11 Rather dubious entertainment in the Soho area, strip-tease clubs, *drinking clubs and so on.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 121 A silver *drinking cup.
1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xiv. 216 A *drinking fountain..to freshen its thirsty square. 1882Drinking fountain [see fountain n. 2]. 1968A. Munro in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 260 The drinking fountain surrounded by little puddles of water.
1927T. E. Donne Maori, Past & Present vii. 76 (caption) *Drinking funnel for tohunga when tapu. 1955H. J. Phillipps Maori Carving Illustr. 9/2 Four beautifully-carved drinking funnels are on exhibition.
1552Huloet, *Drinkinge glasse, or potte, or cuppe, ampulla. 1709Addison Tatler No. 24 ⁋10 Her Name is written with a Diamond on a Drinking-glass.
1552Huloet, *Drinkynge house, cænatiuncula. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 79 Thou shalt go to some drinking-house of greatest resort.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. vi. 19 A *drinking Inne in Cheapside.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Ale, A *drinking Liquor made by infusing ground Malt in boiling Water.
1853‘P. Paxton’ Yankee in Texas 143 Buffaloes have a regular *drinking-place. 1870‘F. Fern’ Ginger-Snaps 91 The man who..takes that child to bar⁓rooms and drinking places.
a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 80 Jewelled *drinking-pots.
1855R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) 172 The lobbies and *drinking saloons at the capitol. 1875Mrs. Stowe We & Neighbors xli. 377 Finally we alighted before a plain house in a street full of drinking-saloons.
1855N.Y. Herald 6 Nov. 5/3 A multitude of *drinking shops have already been closed. 1891Kipling Light that Failed xv, Dick entered the drinking-shop which was one source of her gains.
1814Scott Wav. lxiii, The stone-basin seemed to be destined for a *drinking-trough for cattle.
1535Coverdale 2 Chron. ix. 20 All kynge Salomons *drynkynge vessels were of golde.
1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. v, The *drinking-water of the house was supplied from this well.
c. Special comb., as drinking-bout, a fit of hard drinking; drinking chocolate = chocolate 1; also, the powder used for making the beverage; drinking-club, an association for the purpose of drinking in company; drinking-habit, addiction to alcoholic liquor; the drink habit; † drinking-money, † -penny = drink-money; drinking-nut (see quot. 1909); drinking problem, an addiction to alcohol, a tendency towards alcoholism (sometimes used euphemistically); see problem 3 c (b); drinking-song, one written about drink or drinking; drinking up, the finishing of a drink; drinking-up time, a short period after the legal closing-time in a public house which is permitted by law for the consumption of drinks bought before it.
1672Cave Prim. Chr. iii. ii. (1673) 285 Not spent upon feasts and *drinking-bouts. 1873Black Pr. Thule (1874) 8 As if he were at a drinking-bout of the lads.
1920Grocer 1 May 31/2 (Advt.), Delicious Chocolate at less money than Cocoa. Cup-Royal *Drinking Chocolate. No sugar required. 1972J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 49 His wife handed him a beaker of drinking-chocolate.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §19 Most free-thinkers are the proselytes of a *drinking-club.
1899W. James Talks to Teachers viii. 64 They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the *drinking-habit.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxviii. 582 Goo to your purse & gyve vs som *drynkynge money. 1611Florio, Beueraggio..also drinking money.
1909Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 256/1 A stalwart native..with..a dozen ‘*drinking-nuts’ (young cocoa-nuts), the ice⁓creams of the Pacific.
1957Alcoholic Rehabilitation Commission News Let. (Berkeley, Calif.) July 2/2 The Sobriety Foundation of San Jose has been a going concern since 1954 in the human relations venture of assisting people with *drinking problems. 1969E. Ambler Intercom Conspiracy (1970) ii. 46 He has what our American friends call a drinking problem. Not an alcoholic, but certainly a heavy drinker. 1982Times 13 Apr. 5/1 It is now thought that there are 600,000 dependent drinkers in Britain alone with a further million to 1.2m with serious drinking problems.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 180 The slightest kind of musicke..are the vinase or *drincking songs.
1960Guardian 30 Nov. 2/3 The proposal for an extra quarter of an hour for ‘*drinking up’.
1961Times 29 Mar. 7/3 ‘*Drinking up’ time of 10 minutes. 1968‘H. Carmichael’ Slightly Bitter Taste x. 182 We stop serving at three o'clock and then there's ten minutes drinking-up time before we turn the key in the lock.
▸ drinking game n. a game or contest involving the consumption of alcoholic drinks, esp. as a forfeit or in response to some specified prompt (in quot. 1617 app. referring simply to a bout of drinking).
1617F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. iv. 228 Beyond measure he was giuen to large drinking, (in plaine termes to drunkennesse)... And for these *drinking games, he had certaine faire chambers.., which were appropriated to festiuall solaces. 1622J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. iii. ii. 194 They may afterwards play at Foxe mine Host, or some other Drinking Game at Cards or Dice for their recreation. 1885Outing May 187/1 Several drinking games were instituted. One recruit, standing upon his head, must drink a ladle of wine which the other held out to him; [etc.]. 1925Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 15 Jan. 12/4 Noisy parties of Chinese were playing the drinking game of ‘Fingers’—a guessing match where..the loser is compelled to empty his wine cup. 2004N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Dec. b38/2 ‘Chopper’ has..even inspired a drinking game. You have to chug every time someone on-screen says ‘Dude!’, ‘Awesome!’ or ‘Sick!’
▪ II. ˈdrinking, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That drinks. a. Of persons: Addicted to drinking; spec. indulging freely in intoxicants. b. Of a material: That sucks up moisture; absorbent.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 7 Of milc drinkende childre muðe. 1583Hollyband Campo di Fior 339 Wast paper, Which we call, the drinking paper, which beareth no inke. 1856Olmsted Slave States 97 Drinking men, wholly unfitted for the responsibility imposed on them. 1887Pall Mall G. 23 Apr. 12/1 Tobacco..known in the trade as drinking tobacco, will carry the water better. |