| 单词 | spirit drinking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit drinking b. With participles, verbal nouns, and agent nouns, forming compounds in which spirit expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in spirit drinker, spirit drinking, spirit seller, etc. ΚΠ 1729 E. Strother Pract. Observ. Epidemical Fever 92 Brandy Spirits..will..destroy the Texture of the Blood, and turn it into a Solid, as appears by those Concretions in the Aorta of Spirit-Drinkers. 1744 D. Forbes Considerations Present State Scotl. 10 The Tea and Spirit drinking is high, in proportion as the Brewery is low. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xiii. 8 To be looked upon as a common..spirit-guzzler. 1896 Daily News 4 Mar. 8/5 Her greatest danger came from the spirit-sellers. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 644/1 The pattern resembled closely the alcoholism of North America and most spirit-consuming cultures. 1997 J. Hawes Rancid Aluminium (1998) 8 Thirty years of cold, damp, winterbeaten, husband-battered, childbearing, stall-holding, spirit-drinking, tooth-rotting reality count nearly double. 2001 Carillon (Steinbach, Manitoba) 1 Oct. 12 c/1 A single duck flew over, the spirit drinker shot and down came the duck! < as lemmas |
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