单词 | pint mug |
释义 | > as lemmaspint mug General attributive, in sense ‘having a capacity of a pint’, as pint bottle, pint glass, pint measure, pint mug, pint stoup, etc.Recorded earliest in pint pot n. ΚΠ 1383 Inquisition Misc. (P.R.O.: C 145/228/11) m. 2 iiijor pyntpottes de Metall. 1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 295 For ane tyn quart and ane poynt stopes. 1526 Protocol Bk. J. Foular (1930) II. 225 A pynt stop, a chopin, and a muchekin of tyn. 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. f. 44, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Twelf pynt flaconeis. 1633 Fife Witch Trial in J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1796) XVIII. App. 660 His hand swelled as great as a pint-stoup. 1685 in M. Wood & H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1954) XI. 158 The dean of gild reported that he had tried the touns jugs consisting of two pynt jugs and ane chopen. 1713 T. Cave Let. 16 Jan. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) I. xiii. 244 The London Postmaster, who yet swallow'd down a pint glass of Ale to the poor Boy's health. 1749 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1877) III. i. 738 For double prices the conjuror will go into a pint bottle. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 243 Mr. Fraser called for pint glasses. 1800 J. Woodforde Diary 19 Oct. (1931) V. 279 Miss Emeris sent us a Pint Bottle of Mushrooms. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxviii. 380 This profound reflection Mr. Toodle washed down with a pint mug of tea. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 160 We sat beneath the shade of a huge Bamboo clump, cut ourselves pint-stoups out of the joints. 1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 311 Two pint measures of tea and a yard of thick Canadian roll tobacco. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 293 The memory of the dead, says the citizen taking up his pintglass and glaring at Bloom. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby vi. 51 Binnie gave me coffee in a pint mug. 1995 Mother Earth News Dec. 99/3 Pour some hard cider into a pint jar, cover with cheesecloth to keep out fruitflies, and place in a warm dark place. < as lemmas |
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