单词 | nobblerize |
释义 | † nobblerizev. Australian slang. Obsolete. intransitive. To drink alcohol, esp. in company or as a frequent practice. Cf. nobbler n. 2. ΚΠ 1847 Port Phillip Gaz. (Melbourne) 30 June 2 He was comfortably nobblerizing in the William Tell. 1864 J. Rogers New Rush 51 And oft a duffer-dealing digger there Will nobblerize in jerks of small despair. 1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake 142 As soon as ‘the cut’ was out we used to adjourn to Waldies..nobblerise for a bit, and then go home with the milk in the morning. Derivatives nobblerizing n. ΚΠ 1848 Sydney Daily Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/5 (heading) Nobblerizing... The Sydney Morning Herald is all astonishment at discovering that the Port Phillip people excel the Sydney folks in their annual potations by half a gallon a head. 1899 A. Hay Footprints 107 It is said that in the early years of the colony there was a terrible habit of ‘nobblerizing’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1847 |
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