drunkardn.
/ˈdrʌŋkərd/ 1. One addicted to drinking; one who habitually drinks to excess; an inebriate, a sot.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 155 Yuroygne, a man droncarde; yuresse, a woman droncarde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxviii[i]. 12 The dronckhardes made songes vpon me.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cvii. 75 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 172 As drunckards..they staggring reele.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 276. ⁋1 A man that is now and then guilty of Intemperance is not to be called a Drunkard.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 35 A drunkard in charge of drunkards would be singularly fortunate if he avoided doing a serious mischief.
2. A local name of the Marsh Marigold.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > marsh marigold
kingcup1538
petty nenuphar1548
bassinet1578
brave celandine1578
marsh marigold1578
boots1597
caltha1599
mareblob1649
water boot1665
horse-blob1821
water-blob1821
molly-blob1854
May-blob1863
drunkard1886
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names App.
1894 S. Baring-Gould Kitty Alone I. 118 The large golden cups that grow by the water's edge—these we call drunkards, but they drink only water.
Compounds
C1. drunkard-curer, drunkard-curing.
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1892 Daily News 22 June 5/5 There are several rival drunkard curers in the field.
1892 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 18 Nov. 7/4 The new drunkard-curing institution.
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drunkard's cloak n. a tub or barrel with holes for the head and hands fitted on a drunkard like a jacket, as a punishment.
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1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 192 (note) In the time of the commonwealth, it appears that the magistrates..punished..drunkards by making them carry a tub, called the drunkard's cloak, through the streets.
Derivatives
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > be drunk > act like drunkard
drunkardize1632
1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids iv. 99 Her deaded heart incens'd, she raves aloud, Doth madly through the citie drunkardize.
Draft additions June 2018
Drunkard's Path n. (originally) a patchwork pattern in which units consisting of a quarter-circle in a square are combined to create a meandering pattern across the quilt; (hence) any arrangement of such quarter-circle units.
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1892 Hearth & Home (Augusta, Maine) Mar. 6/2 I have several different quilt patterns, such as ‘Masonic Square’, ‘Necktie’, ‘Drunkard's Path’, etc., and will send pattern to any of the Hearth and Home readers who will pay the postage.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 35/2 Some patterns are endowed with fanciful, romantic or poetic names, the significance being often obscure or unknown: World Without End..Crosses and Losses, Drunkard's Path.
1992 Sunday Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 31 May c9/3 The ‘Drunkard's Path’ design used in quilting is so-called because it cuts a wobbly swath across the quilt top.
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