drinkingn.

/ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ/

Etymology: < drink v.¹

1. The action or habit denoted by drink v.¹; spec. the use of intoxicating liquor, or indulgence therein to excess.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun]

drinkc888

draughtc1200

drinkingc1200

wetting1340

beveragec1390

receipta1393

bever1499

potation1509

quaff1579

watering1598

wipe1600

sorbition1623

imbibation1826

imbibition1844

bibition1853

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun]

overdrinkeOE

drinkingc1200

excessc1386

bibbinga1400

bollingc1540

boozingc1540

bousingc1540

swillingc1563

tippling1567

carousing1582

swinking1590

bezzling1598

swill1602

swink1611

overdrinking1616

popination1623

sottishness1648

fuddling1665

toping1668

bibbership1670

abuse1732

dram-drinking1772

dramminga1790

potation1808

spree1811

muzzling1828

bibbery1831

Bacchanalianism1855

Bacchanalism1858

smiling1858

bibulation1882

tanking1891

reeler1950

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Sume men ladeð here lif on etinge and on drinkinge alse swin.

c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (1898) 58 Wythdrawe þe fro mekyl drynkynge.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. ii. 91 As for natural wine..the drinking therof is forbidden them.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §313 Finding their own provisions of eating and drinking.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 194 Gaming, racing, drinking, and mistresses, bring them down.

2. An occasion of drinking; a convivial revel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.iiij^v At euery tauerne in the yere A solempne dyryge is songe there With a grete drynkynge.

1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 118 A busshell and halffe of malte to be browne..to fynde a drinkinge vpon Ascention Even.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 99 You contend in your drinkings..who should drink most.

3. concrete in dialect use; see quots.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinckinge geuen to workemen after dinner, colosium.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Drinkings, beer given to labourers before and after dinner.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. With sense ‘used for drinking’.

drinking-bowl n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > drinking-bowl

bowlc950

scalec1230

black bowl1509

bubber1669

drinking-bowl1852

1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxvii. 208 Two silver drinking-bowls.

drinking-cup n.

ΚΠ

a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 121 A silver drinking cup.

drinking-fountain n.

ΚΠ

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 Aug. 456/2 A drinking fountain..to freshen its thirsty square.

1882 Cassell at Drinking-fountain Modern drinking fountains began to be erected in Liverpool in 1857. The first one in London was opened to the public on April 12, 1859.

1968 A. Munro in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 260 The drinking fountain surrounded by little puddles of water.

drinking funnel n. New Zealand

ΚΠ

1927 T. E. Donne Maori, Past & Present vii. 76 (caption) Drinking funnel for tohunga when tapu.

1955 W. J. Phillipps Maori Carving Illustr. 9/2 Four beautifully-carved drinking funnels are on exhibition.

drinking-glass n.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinkinge glasse, or potte, or cuppe, ampulla.

1709 Tatler No. 24 Her Name is written with a Diamond on a Drinking-glass.

drinking-horn n.

drinking-liquor n.

ΚΠ

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Ale A drinking Liquor made by infusing ground Malt in boiling Water.

drinking-place n.

ΚΠ

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 378 After this we went out..to go through the..drinking places.

drinking-pool n.

drinking-pot n.

ΚΠ

a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 80 Jewelled drinking-pots.

drinking-trough n.

ΚΠ

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^*. 224 The stone bason seemed to be destined for a drinking-trough for cattle.

drinking-vessel n.

ΚΠ

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. ix. 20 All kynge Salomons drynkynge vessels were of golde.

drinking-water n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > for drinking

streamc1275

Adam's ale1643

Adam's wine1747

drinking-water1888

1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 105 The drinking-water of the house was supplied from this well.

C2. ‘Used for the sale or consumption of drink.’

drinking-booth n.

ΚΠ

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 334 The neatness of their drinking-booths.

drinking club n.

ΚΠ

1967 E. Paul Jewels in Jeopardy i. 11 Rather dubious entertainment in the Soho area, strip-tease clubs, drinking clubs and so on.

drinking-house n.

ΚΠ

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinkynge house, cænatiuncula.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 Thou shalt go to some drinking-house of greatest resort.

drinking-inn n.

ΚΠ

1606 Returne from Pernassus i. vi. sig. c^v A drinking Inne [MS drinkinge], in Cheapside at the signe of the nagges heade.

drinking-place n.

ΚΠ

1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray 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.

drinking-room n.

drinking-saloon n.

ΚΠ

1855 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) 172 The lobbies and drinking saloons at the capitol.

1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 377 Finally we alighted before a plain house in a street full of drinking-saloons.

drinking-shop n.

ΚΠ

1855 N.Y. Herald 6 Nov. 5/3 A multitude of drinking shops have already been closed.

1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xv. 313 Dick entered the drinking-shop which was one source of her gains.

C3. Special combinations.

drinking-bout n. a fit of hard drinking.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout

cups1406

drinking?1518

banquet1535

Bacchanal1536

pot-revel1577

compotation1593

rouse1604

Bacchanalia1633

potmealc1639

bout1670

drinking-bout1673

carouse1690

carousal1765

drunk1779

bouse1786

toot1790

set-to1808

spree1811

fuddlea1813

screed1815

bust1834

lush1841

bender1846

bat1848

buster1848

burst1849

soak1851

binge1854

bumming1860

bust-out1861

bum1863

booze1864

drink1865

ran-tan1866

cupping1868

crawl1877

hellbender1877

break-away1885

periodical1886

jag1894

booze-up1897

slopping-up1899

souse1903

pub crawl1915

blind1917

beer-up1919

periodic1920

scoot1924

brannigan1927

rumba1934

boozeroo1943

sesh1943

session1943

piss-up1950

pink-eye1958

binge drinking1964

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. ii. 285 Not spent upon feasts and drinking-bouts.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 16 As if he were at a drinking-bout of the lads.

drinking chocolate n. = chocolate n. 1; also, the powder used for making the beverage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun]

chocolate1604

cacao1625

chocolate cup1687

milk chocolate1723

cocoa tea1747

cocoa1786

hot chocolate1789

hot cocoa1824

shell cocoa1902

drinking chocolate1920

shell shock1935

kye1943

1920 Grocer 1 May 31/2 (advt.) Delicious Chocolate at less money than Cocoa. Cup-Royal Drinking Chocolate. No sugar required.

1972 J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 49 His wife handed him a beaker of drinking-chocolate.

drinking-club n. an association for the purpose of drinking in company.

ΚΠ

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xix. 123 Most Free-thinkers are the Proselytes of a drinking Club.

drinking-habit n. addiction to alcoholic liquor; the drink habit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking

intemperancy1586

intemperance1617

bibacity1623

dipsomania1843

bibulousness1844

alcoholism1848

potomania1858

inebriacy1876

alcohol problem1879

drink-habit1890

alcohol abuse1891

toperism1896

oenomania1897

drinking-habit1899

bibulosity1901

drinking problem1957

substance abuse1967

1899 W. James Talks to Teachers viii. 64 They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit.

† †drinking-money n. Obsolete = drink-money n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip > to be spent on drink

drink-silver1467

drinking-money1490

drink-penny1593

drink-money1691

pourboire1788

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 582 Goo to your purse & gyve vs som drynkynge money.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Beueraggio..also drinking money.

drinking-nut n. (see quot. 1909).

ΚΠ

1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 256/1 A stalwart native..with..a dozen ‘drinking-nuts’ (young cocoa-nuts), the ice~creams of the Pacific.

† †drinking-penny n. Obsolete = drink-money n.

drinking problem n. an addiction to alcohol, a tendency towards alcoholism (sometimes used euphemistically); see problem n. 3c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking

intemperancy1586

intemperance1617

bibacity1623

dipsomania1843

bibulousness1844

alcoholism1848

potomania1858

inebriacy1876

alcohol problem1879

drink-habit1890

alcohol abuse1891

toperism1896

oenomania1897

drinking-habit1899

bibulosity1901

drinking problem1957

substance abuse1967

1957 Alcoholic Rehabilit. Comm. 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.

1969 E. Ambler Intercom Conspiracy (1970) ii. 46 He has what our American friends call a drinking problem. Not an alcoholic, but certainly a heavy drinker.

1970 D. Bagley Running Blind iv. 83 He had a drinking problem at one time and decided to cut it out.

1982 Times 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.

drinking-song n. one written about drink or drinking.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > drinking-song

drinking-song1597

wassail1607

Bacchic1676

Bacchanaliaa1680

epileny1708

tavern-song1823

wassail-song1829

pot-song1850

wassailing song1914

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 The slightest kind of musicke..are the vinase or drincking songs.

drinking up n. the finishing of a drink.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > finishing drink

epotation1628

drinking up1960

1960 Guardian 30 Nov. 2/3 The proposal for an extra quarter of an hour for ‘drinking up’.

drinking-up time n. 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.

ΚΠ

1961 Times 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.

Draft additions March 2016

drinking buddy n. colloquial

ΚΠ

1925 Escabana (Mich.) Daily Press 9 Aug. 2/2 (headline) Drinking buddies held by sheriff.

1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. 375 Not a drinking buddy, nor ever likely to be one after our clash in a Melbourne bar.

1997 Oxf. Amer. Jan. 32/2 After that, he came to Nashville... Roy Acuff and some of his other drinking buddies saw him there.

Draft additions September 2014

drinking companion n.

ΚΠ

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xv. 187 We reade also of a certaine King of the Gothes, who making his Souldiers his drinking companions, was for his free and kind heart at the last drowned by them in a Tub of Ale.

1727 E. Mayhew Indian Converts ii. 124 He from this time forward forsook his Drunkenness, and all his drinking Companions, and lived soberly.

1839 J. Collinson Crack Club No. 6. 65 He had spent a great part of the morning in the public-house with one of his drinking companions.

1941 H. L. Mencken Diary 3 Nov. (1989) 170 A rummy old Episcopal rector who had been one of the drinking companions of my grandfather Mencken.

2011 M. Ellis Princes Gate ii. 15 Drinking too much..was hard to avoid if your principal, indeed only, drinking companion was someone..who could..put six or seven pints away without batting an eyelid.

Draft additions December 2006

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 apparently referring simply to a bout of drinking).

ΚΠ

1617 F. 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.

1622 J. 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.

1885 Outing 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.].

1925 Fitchburg (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.

2004 N.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!’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	drinking
释义	drinkingn. /ˈdrɪŋkɪŋ/ Etymology: < drink v.¹ 1. The action or habit denoted by drink v.¹; spec. the use of intoxicating liquor, or indulgence therein to excess. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] drinkc888 draughtc1200 drinkingc1200 wetting1340 beveragec1390 receipta1393 bever1499 potation1509 quaff1579 watering1598 wipe1600 sorbition1623 imbibation1826 imbibition1844 bibition1853 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] overdrinkeOE drinkingc1200 excessc1386 bibbinga1400 bollingc1540 boozingc1540 bousingc1540 swillingc1563 tippling1567 carousing1582 swinking1590 bezzling1598 swill1602 swink1611 overdrinking1616 popination1623 sottishness1648 fuddling1665 toping1668 bibbership1670 abuse1732 dram-drinking1772 dramminga1790 potation1808 spree1811 muzzling1828 bibbery1831 Bacchanalianism1855 Bacchanalism1858 smiling1858 bibulation1882 tanking1891 reeler1950 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 37 Sume men ladeð here lif on etinge and on drinkinge alse swin. c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. (1898) 58 Wythdrawe þe fro mekyl drynkynge. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. ii. 91 As for natural wine..the drinking therof is forbidden them. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §313 Finding their own provisions of eating and drinking. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 194 Gaming, racing, drinking, and mistresses, bring them down. 2. An occasion of drinking; a convivial revel. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.iiij^v At euery tauerne in the yere A solempne dyryge is songe there With a grete drynkynge. 1522 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 118 A busshell and halffe of malte to be browne..to fynde a drinkinge vpon Ascention Even. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 99 You contend in your drinkings..who should drink most. 3. concrete in dialect use; see quots. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinckinge geuen to workemen after dinner, colosium. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Drinkings, beer given to labourers before and after dinner. Compounds General attributive. C1. With sense ‘used for drinking’. drinking-bowl n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > drinking-bowl bowlc950 scalec1230 black bowl1509 bubber1669 drinking-bowl1852 1852 G. Grote Hist. Greece X. ii. lxxvii. 208 Two silver drinking-bowls. drinking-cup n. ΚΠ a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 121 A silver drinking cup. drinking-fountain n. ΚΠ 1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 18 Aug. 456/2 A drinking fountain..to freshen its thirsty square. 1882 Cassell at Drinking-fountain Modern drinking fountains began to be erected in Liverpool in 1857. The first one in London was opened to the public on April 12, 1859. 1968 A. Munro in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 260 The drinking fountain surrounded by little puddles of water. drinking funnel n. New Zealand ΚΠ 1927 T. E. Donne Maori, Past & Present vii. 76 (caption) Drinking funnel for tohunga when tapu. 1955 W. J. Phillipps Maori Carving Illustr. 9/2 Four beautifully-carved drinking funnels are on exhibition. drinking-glass n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinkinge glasse, or potte, or cuppe, ampulla. 1709 Tatler No. 24 Her Name is written with a Diamond on a Drinking-glass. drinking-horn n. drinking-liquor n. ΚΠ 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Ale A drinking Liquor made by infusing ground Malt in boiling Water. drinking-place n. ΚΠ 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 378 After this we went out..to go through the..drinking places. drinking-pool n. drinking-pot n. ΚΠ a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 80 Jewelled drinking-pots. drinking-trough n. ΚΠ 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv^. 224 The stone bason seemed to be destined for a drinking-trough for cattle. View more context for this quotation drinking-vessel n. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale)* 2 Chron. ix. 20 All kynge Salomons drynkynge vessels were of golde. drinking-water n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > for drinking streamc1275 Adam's ale1643 Adam's wine1747 drinking-water1888 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 105 The drinking-water of the house was supplied from this well. C2. ‘Used for the sale or consumption of drink.’ drinking-booth n. ΚΠ 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 334 The neatness of their drinking-booths. drinking club n. ΚΠ 1967 E. Paul Jewels in Jeopardy i. 11 Rather dubious entertainment in the Soho area, strip-tease clubs, drinking clubs and so on. drinking-house n. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Drinkynge house, cænatiuncula. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 79 Thou shalt go to some drinking-house of greatest resort. drinking-inn n. ΚΠ 1606 Returne from Pernassus i. vi. sig. c^v A drinking Inne [MS drinkinge], in Cheapside at the signe of the nagges heade. drinking-place n. ΚΠ 1853 ‘P. Paxton’ Stray 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. drinking-room n. drinking-saloon n. ΚΠ 1855 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life (1874) 172 The lobbies and drinking saloons at the capitol. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors xli. 377 Finally we alighted before a plain house in a street full of drinking-saloons. drinking-shop n. ΚΠ 1855 N.Y. Herald 6 Nov. 5/3 A multitude of drinking shops have already been closed. 1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xv. 313 Dick entered the drinking-shop which was one source of her gains. C3. Special combinations. drinking-bout n. a fit of hard drinking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. ii. 285 Not spent upon feasts and drinking-bouts. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 16 As if he were at a drinking-bout of the lads. drinking chocolate n. = chocolate n. 1; also, the powder used for making the beverage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun] chocolate1604 cacao1625 chocolate cup1687 milk chocolate1723 cocoa tea1747 cocoa1786 hot chocolate1789 hot cocoa1824 shell cocoa1902 drinking chocolate1920 shell shock1935 kye1943 1920 Grocer 1 May 31/2 (advt.) Delicious Chocolate at less money than Cocoa. Cup-Royal Drinking Chocolate. No sugar required. 1972 J. Wainwright Night is Time to Die 49 His wife handed him a beaker of drinking-chocolate. drinking-club n. an association for the purpose of drinking in company. ΚΠ 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. xix. 123 Most Free-thinkers are the Proselytes of a drinking Club. drinking-habit n. addiction to alcoholic liquor; the drink habit. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking intemperancy1586 intemperance1617 bibacity1623 dipsomania1843 bibulousness1844 alcoholism1848 potomania1858 inebriacy1876 alcohol problem1879 drink-habit1890 alcohol abuse1891 toperism1896 oenomania1897 drinking-habit1899 bibulosity1901 drinking problem1957 substance abuse1967 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers viii. 64 They talk of the smoking-habit and the swearing-habit and the drinking-habit. † †drinking-money n. Obsolete = drink-money n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > tip > to be spent on drink drink-silver1467 drinking-money1490 drink-penny1593 drink-money1691 pourboire1788 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxviii. 582 Goo to your purse & gyve vs som drynkynge money. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Beueraggio..also drinking money. drinking-nut n. (see quot. 1909). ΚΠ 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 256/1 A stalwart native..with..a dozen ‘drinking-nuts’ (young cocoa-nuts), the ice~creams of the Pacific. † †drinking-penny n. Obsolete = drink-money n. drinking problem n. an addiction to alcohol, a tendency towards alcoholism (sometimes used euphemistically); see problem n. 3c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking intemperancy1586 intemperance1617 bibacity1623 dipsomania1843 bibulousness1844 alcoholism1848 potomania1858 inebriacy1876 alcohol problem1879 drink-habit1890 alcohol abuse1891 toperism1896 oenomania1897 drinking-habit1899 bibulosity1901 drinking problem1957 substance abuse1967 1957 Alcoholic Rehabilit. Comm. 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. 1969 E. Ambler Intercom Conspiracy (1970) ii. 46 He has what our American friends call a drinking problem. Not an alcoholic, but certainly a heavy drinker. 1970 D. Bagley Running Blind iv. 83 He had a drinking problem at one time and decided to cut it out. 1982 Times 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. drinking-song n. one written about drink or drinking. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > drinking-song drinking-song1597 wassail1607 Bacchic1676 Bacchanaliaa1680 epileny1708 tavern-song1823 wassail-song1829 pot-song1850 wassailing song1914 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 The slightest kind of musicke..are the vinase or drincking songs. drinking up n. the finishing of a drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > finishing drink epotation1628 drinking up1960 1960 Guardian 30 Nov. 2/3 The proposal for an extra quarter of an hour for ‘drinking up’. drinking-up time n. 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. ΚΠ 1961 Times 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. Draft additions March 2016 drinking buddy n. colloquial ΚΠ 1925 Escabana (Mich.) Daily Press 9 Aug. 2/2 (headline) Drinking buddies held by sheriff. 1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. 375 Not a drinking buddy, nor ever likely to be one after our clash in a Melbourne bar. 1997 Oxf. Amer. Jan. 32/2 After that, he came to Nashville... Roy Acuff and some of his other drinking buddies saw him there. Draft additions September 2014 drinking companion n. ΚΠ 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xv. 187 We reade also of a certaine King of the Gothes, who making his Souldiers his drinking companions, was for his free and kind heart at the last drowned by them in a Tub of Ale. 1727 E. Mayhew Indian Converts ii. 124 He from this time forward forsook his Drunkenness, and all his drinking Companions, and lived soberly. 1839 J. Collinson Crack Club No. 6. 65 He had spent a great part of the morning in the public-house with one of his drinking companions. 1941 H. L. Mencken Diary 3 Nov. (1989) 170 A rummy old Episcopal rector who had been one of the drinking companions of my grandfather Mencken. 2011 M. Ellis Princes Gate ii. 15 Drinking too much..was hard to avoid if your principal, indeed only, drinking companion was someone..who could..put six or seven pints away without batting an eyelid. Draft additions December 2006 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 apparently referring simply to a bout of drinking). ΚΠ 1617 F. 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. 1622 J. 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. 1885 Outing 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.]. 1925 Fitchburg (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. 2004 N.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!’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). drinkingadj. Etymology: < drink v.¹ + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdrinking. That drinks. a. Of persons: Addicted to drinking; spec. indulging freely in intoxicants. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [adjective] drinkingc1175 bibbing1594 Madeira-drinking1902 slupping1947 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking drunkensomea1300 drunkelew1362 drunksomec1475 drunken1548 boozing1569 boozy1592 bousy1592 moisty1593 unsober1611 upsy-friesy1617 moist1619 sottish1632 swilling1633 bibacious1663 intemperate1680 swill-bellied1680 swill-down1693 wet1699 potative1737 compotatory1817 alcoholic1845 drinking1856 bibulous1861 on the drink1865 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 7 Of milc drinkende childre muðe. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 97 Drinking men, wholly unfitted for the responsibility imposed on them. b. Of a material: That sucks up moisture; absorbent. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > [adjective] soakingc1440 drinking1583 spongy1609 bibbing1633 absorptive1664 absorbing1666 bibulous1676 absorbent1694 insorbent1756 hygroscopic1790 obsorbent1902 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 339 Wast paper, Which we call, the drinking paper, which beareth no inke. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Apr. 12/1 Tobacco..known in the trade as drinking tobacco, will carry the water better. Compounds drinking Parliament n. the Scottish parliament which met after the Restoration on 1 January 1661 (also drunken Parliament.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > division of Scottish parliament > specific Scottish parliament green tablec1650 drinking Parliamenta1699 a1699 J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) iii. 114 This parliament [1662] was called the Drinking Parliament. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.c1200adj.c1175
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