单词 | hophead |
释义 | hopheadn. 1. [ < hop n.1 4 + head n.1 13a] An opium-smoker; a drug-addict. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to opium pipe1779 pipe-fiend1889 opiumate1894 hop fiend1898 hophead1911 hoppy1922 1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 Opium smokers, ‘hop fiends’ or ‘hop heads’, as they are called, are the fiercest of all the White Slavers. 1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. 130 I told Beau to hunt up a skirt before, but you know these hop-heads—always putting things off. 1931 E. Wallace On Spot ii. 21 A hop-head will spill his friends' secrets to buy more hop. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xi. 72 ‘What's a junkie?’ she asked. ‘Hop-head.’ 1947 E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 180 Can someone imagine what any moujik coolie or hophead of any crevice of the Orient would sense, upon receiving such a gospel? 1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies ix. 144 Did you ever see a hophead when he's been kept short of what he wants? 1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key vii. 75 I'll mail the letter to that hophead lawyer. 2. [hop n.1 1b.] A drunkard, a tippler. New Zealand slang. 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 1942 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 17 Aug. 16/3 (caption) Private Harry Hophead seen leaving Shepheards after a brief visit (very).] 1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams ii. ix. 201 It's Betty that can't hold the liquor... She's a real lily of a hophead. 1952 Landfall 6 208 Among young people greetings like ‘Hophead’..are accepted as flattery. Draft additions June 2013† The compound flower of the female hop plant. Obsolete.In quots. ?1711, 1820: a flower of any of several plants bearing some resemblance to that of the hop. ΚΠ ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 82 Curl-leaved Cape Cats-foot with Hop-heads. 1820 Amer. Farmer 9 June 86/1 A division of clovers into three families—those with loose declining flowers—those with round heads compact as in cow clover; and those with oblong hop heads. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 265 By pressure Hopheads yield a green, light, acrid oil, called Oil of Hops. 1849 First Steps in Gen. Knowl. IV. v. 77 It is produced by little glands.., which are scattered over the green scales of the hop-head, and contain a bitter resin. 1886 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 28 July Another hat..is faced with black velvet and trimmed with pale green hop heads. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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