单词 | gin-smuggling |
释义 | > as lemmasgin-smuggling c. Instrumental and objective, as gin-drinker, gin-smuggling, gin-drunk, etc. ΚΠ 1734 S. Buck Geneva 5 Tea does in some measure occasion the drinking of Gin, many flying to her for Cure of the Vapours and Spleen; yet I cannot look upon such as true Gin-Drinkers. 1736 in Coll. Pamphlets Pro & Con Brit. Distillery 10 The necessary Effects of Gin-Drinking are a Depravation of Appetite, Vomiting, Relaxation of the Coats of the Stomach. 1748 D. Mallet Congratulatory Let. to Selim 11 A ragged Gin-drunk old Apple-woman. 1755 Man No. 13. ⁋8 She proving a vixen, a gilt, and a gin-drinker. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism ii. 13 The labourer's..unrest, recklessness, gin-drinking. 1859 Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 292 That gin-drinking hag. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 278 The prevention of gin smuggling. 1941 P. Larkin Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 21 Their playing is nervous & tense and dirty—exemplified by Mezzrow, the dope-taker, or Tough, the gin-drinker. 1965 B. Took & M. Feldman in B. Took & M. Coward Best of ‘Round the Horne’ (2000) 1st Ser. Programme 11. 38/2 Your Queen Mother? That gin-swigging slagheap! 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 1Apr. d4 The two-fisted, gin-drinking womanizing master of the pianoforte has been dead 44 years. 2016 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 28 Feb. (Living section) 5 It happened when I was researching a gin smuggler..for another book. < as lemmas |
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