gin shopn.
/ˈdʒɪn ʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪn ˌʃɑp/ British. Now chiefly historical.
A tavern or public house selling chiefly gin.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > house providing other drinks
mead-inn1632
punch-house1661
gin house?1720
gin shop1723
thermopolion1753
whisky-house1767
spirit house1807
1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees i. 340 [She] never did any thing to remedy her Wants in good earnest, but bewailing them at a Gin-shop.
a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) anno 1773 II. 217 Johnson: What is there in any of these shops, (if you except gin-shops,) that can do any human being any harm?
1801 Sporting Mag. 17 20 He walked as far as the Tower Stairs, where he lodged his booty in the bar of a small gin-shop.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. xvii. 203 The more ill-looking of the men..hung about on the steps of the beer-houses and gin-shops.
1954 E. Huxley Four Guineas iii. i. 80 A bench set up in the shade of gin-shop or godown.
2015 Times & Transcipt (New Brunswick) (Nexis) 1 May c4 In the very rough Cripplegate area of London, two floors above a gin shop.
Derivatives
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of liquor
wine-tavernerc950
vinter1297
wine-drawer1415
vintnerc1430
vintenerc1450
ale-taker1454
merchant vintner1532
winer1532
ale-man1600
gaugerc1610
brandy-man1723
purl-man1797
haberdasher1821
gin-shopper1831
liquor-seller1855
diddle-cove1858
curate1882
off-licensee1892
1831 Lincoln Herald 1 July 4/5 I will drag them out one by one whether publican or sinner..sugar-shopper, or gin-shopper.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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