| 单词 | pottle-deep |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspottle-deep pottle-deep adj. and adv. chiefly literary (a) adj. (of a drink) that would fill a pottle, generous; (of a bout of drinking) copious, heavy; (b) adv. (of drinking) copiously, heavily. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [adjective] > relating to depth of pottle pottle-deepa1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 50 Roderigo..To Desdemona, hath to night caroust Potations pottle deepe. 1673 J. Ogilby tr. J. Nieuhof Embassy E.-India Company (ed. 2) I. 167 Whatever the Liquor be, they do but sip it off by degrees, never Potations, as we say Pottle-deep. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 124 The life of a Lord..consists principally of his amours, his pottle deep potations, his politics, and his—hazards. 1863 A. Trollope N. Amer. 41 The men of Maine drank pottle deep before Mr. Neil Dow brought his exertions to a successful termination. a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) v. 47 He brimmed his goblet with a rough tawny wine..and drank to her, pottle-deep. 1949 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 24 Nov. 2 (advt.) Potations, pottle-deep, we have in stock. < as lemmas |
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