单词 | drinker |
释义 | drinkern. 1. a. One who drinks. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinker drinkerc950 imbiber1870 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xi. 19 Etere & drincere wines. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xxxvi. 931 Þe roote þerof [sc. carduus] ysode in water ȝiueþ appetite to drynkers. 1520 Chron. Eng. vi. f. 68/2 Whan one dranke to another the drynker sholde saye Wassayle. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 The drinkers commonly stand to be helped with water. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 324 As a rule, sherry drinkers are soundly-minded persons. b. spec. One who indulges to excess in intoxicating liquor; a tippler, a drunkard. 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 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 55 On swiche drinkeres cumeð godes curs. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 319/690 Proud and wemod, and drinkare. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Eviiv Some sayed he was..a drincker, a pot-companion. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 100 That tankard-lifting Zeno..was such a drinker, that hee would often lye as one dead. c. Qualified by adjectives great, hard, small, etc., indicating the amount of liquor habitually taken. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 47 Þe mochele drinkeres. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Tollem. MS.) vi. ix The Danes were grete drynkers by kynde. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vi. xvi. 760 Some say that a great drinker shall neuer become drunke, if he weare a wreath of Iua moscata about his head. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. iv. 53 The English..were hitherto the least Drinkers. 1725 J. Swift Let. to Worrall 27 Aug. in Lett. (1766) II. 49 You have been all your life a great walker, and a little drinker. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 179 They are horrid Drinkers. 1897 N.E.D. at Drinker Mod. His father was a hard drinker. 2. (In full drinker-moth). The popular name of a large European moth, Lasiocampa (Odonestis) potatoria, of the family Bombycidæ, so called from its long suctorial proboscis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Lasiocampidae > lasiocampa potatoria (drinker) drinker1682 1682 M. Lister Goedart. Albin. pl. xvii Drinker-Caterpillar. 1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies (1773) pl. 58. 1865 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) xiv. 288 The fur-clad Drinker Moth. 1871 E. F. Staveley Brit. Insects 270 The downy, large-winged Drinker. 3. A drinking-trough. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > supplying with water > [noun] > for animals > watering-trough watering placea1387 watering trough1530 cattle-trough1887 bore1936 drinker1947 1947 All-Pets Mag. May 5 Keeping..plenty of cool water in drinkers for them [sc. canaries]. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 447/2 The only satisfactory place for drinkers other than specially designed and expensive systems is outside the floor space of the [hen] house. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. (Suppl.) 37/2 If the brooder has fitted food troughs and drinkers. Derivatives ˈdrinkeress n. a female drinker. ΚΠ 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 188. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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