| 单词 | hot stopping |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot stopping hot stopping n. [apparently < hot adj. + stopping n., although the meaning of the second element in this compound is unclear] slang (now rare) a hot mixture of spirits and water. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > spirits and water > hot toddy1741 tod1797 warm with1838 hot stopping1840 hot with1840 1840 Northern Star & Leeds Gen. Advertiser 8 Feb. 7/1 We, down at Wapping, Are drinking hot-stopping. 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. viii. 224 No fire—no singing kettle, for hot stopping, as was wont, and the elder-wine bottle remained in the cupboard. 1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough (ed. 12) ii. 13 No man can..drink hot-stopping the last thing at night, and get up in the morning without remembering that he has done so. 1910 W. B. Forbes 'Hounds, Gentlemen Please!' 355 My visitor had evidently mixed himself some fairly strong ‘hot stopping’. < as lemmas |
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