单词 | alehouse |
释义 | alehousen. Now chiefly English regional and historical. A house or other premises where ale is sold; a public house, a tavern. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > beer- or ale-house alehouselOE beer-housea1513 change1609 barley-islanda1634 China-alehouse1662 mum-house1662 mug-house1685 purl house1700 porterhouse?1730 beer-cellar1732 kiddleywink1830 beer hall1837 tiddlywink1844 beer-garden1863 brasserie1864 purl-boat1902 bierstube1909 keller1927 bierhaus1930 lOE Laws of Æðelred II (Rochester) iii. i. §2. 228 Þæt grið..þæt man sylle on ealahuse [c1150 Quadripartitus: Macro ealahus], bete man þæt æt deadum menn mid vi healfmarce. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 11 Alle heuie sennen..alse ben oueretes and untimeliche eten alehuse and at ferme and at feste. c1390 Form of Confession (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 342 On þe sonenday and oþer haly-dayes I go raþer to tauerne and ale-hous. 1426 in H. M. Flasdieck Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1926) 65 (MED) Wyllyam, sone of Edmond, sente to the Alehows for ale and ther was noon. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 44 His parisshenes gone forth to the ale hous or to a tauerne. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 678/1 He doth naught els but rayle at the ale house all daye. 1596 in T. Stretton Marital Litigation Court of Requests (2008) 125 Thys defendant sayeth her father was a poore tapster and kepte an alehowse withoute Bysshoppes gate. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. ii. 12 Would I were in an Ale-house in London. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 122 If upon Sunday the Church doors be shut, the Ale-houses will be open. 1718 in Rec. Boston Selectmen (1885) 41 Henry Bridgham haveing formerly a Grant to keep an Ale House, asks that his Lycence may be in full to Sell Strong Drink as an Inholder. 1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 159 The stuff fit to make a prodigal of is to be found in every alehouse. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 295 The redcoats filled all the alehouses of Westminster. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 59 A little wayside alehouse..much frequented by drovers. 1937 D. L. Sayers Zeal of thy House iii. 58 In the ale-house, fingers pointed everywhere At William of Sens, the Cathedral architect. 2009 P. Glennie & N. Thrift Shaping Day vii. 247 Their [sc. almanacs'] common presence in alehouses and other quasi-public spaces meant that their readership was not limited to those who could afford to buy their own. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1446 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 250 Robert Innes hes in assedatioun of the bishope the ailhous croft of littil Dunmeitht. 1549 Articles Visitation Byshopricke Norwyche Article xxvi Item, whether any Inholders or alehouse kepers, doo vse commonly to sell meate and drynke in the tyme of common praier. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 2 b Scurrilitie or alehouse jestyng would bee thought odious. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 275 You are..a drinker, a common Ale-house-haunter. 1691 J. Flavel Reasonableness Personal Reformation i. iv. 70 Whether a Jar of Oyl be not as fit to quench a Flame, as Tavern and Ale-house Scores and Reckonings are to buoy up a sinking Trade? 1705 Way to be Wiser 16 The News..is laudibly blunder'd over, upon an Ale-house Bench. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 74 Exercising the trade of a butcher, or an ale house keeper. 1807 M. Berry Jrnl. 27 Aug. (1865) II. 323 Everything about this village, and among other things the alehouse signs, prove its antiquity. 1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 797/2 Let him keep to his tapsters, and his ale-house wenches. 1948 C. Fry Lady's not for Burning ii. 117 I have left Rings of beer on every alehouse table From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties. 1992 Liverpool Echo & Daily Post (BNC) Nov. You may have thought that the alehouse renditions of My Way and Blue Suede Shoes took music to previously uncharted depths. C2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess houndOE drinkerc1200 keach-cup?c1225 gulchcupa1250 bollerc1320 taverner1340 ale stake?1515 wine-bibber1535 bibber1536 swill-bowl1542 malt-wormc1550 rinse-pitcher1552 bibblera1556 ale knight1556 tosspot1568 ring-pigger1570 troll-the-bowl1575 malt-bug1577 gossip-pint-pot1580 black pot1582 alehouse knight1583 worrier1584 suck-spigot1585 bezzle1592 bezzlera1593 cup-leech1593 soaker1593 carouser1596 barley-cap1598 swiller1598 rob-pot1599 Philistine1600 sponge1600 wine-knight1601 fill-knaga1605 reel-pot1604 faithful1609 fill-pot1609 bouser1611 spigot-sucker1611 suck-pint1611 whip-can1611 bib-all-night1612 afternoon man1615 potling1616 Bacchanalian1617 bombard1617 pot-shot1617 potisuge1620 trougha1625 tumbrila1625 borachioa1627 pot-leech1630 kill-pota1637 biberon1637 bang-pitcher1639 son of Bacchusc1640 shuffler1642 suck-bottlea1652 swill-pot1653 poter1657 potatora1660 old soaker1665 fuddle cap1666 old toast1668 bubber1669 toper1673 ale-toast1691 Bacchant1699 fuddler1699 swill-belly1699 tickle-pitcher1699 whetter1709 draughtsmanc1720 bender1728 drammer1740 dram-drinker1744 drammist1756 rum-bud1805 siper1805 Bacchanal1812 boozera1819 rum-sucker1819 soak1820 imp of the spigot1821 polyposist1821 wineskin1821 sack-guzzler1823 sitfast1828 swill-flagon1829 cup-man1834 swiper1836 Lushington1851 lushing-man1859 bloat1860 pottle pot1860 tipsificator1873 tipsifier1873 pegger1874 swizzler1876 bibulant1883 toss-cup1883 lusher1895 stew-bum1902 shicker1906 stiff1907 souse1915 booze-hound1926 stumblebum1932 tanker1932 lush-hound1935 lushy1944 lush-head1945 binge drinker1946 pisshead1946 hophead1948 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie li. 305 These Tauernhaunters or Alehouseknightes which counterfeit the preachers. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. C2 Gabriell, I will bestirre mee, for all like an Alehouse Knight thou crau'st of Iustice to do thee reason. 1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. i. sig. F2 Malta is fam'd for many warlike Wights; But Malt hath more of such, our Ale-house Knights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.lOE |
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