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单词 drinker
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drinkern.

Brit. /ˈdrɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈdrɪŋkər/
Etymology: < drink v.1 + -er suffix1.
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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