Tipple



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.酗酒;n.烈酒
• ［英］ v.酗酒 ( drink alcoholic beverages frequently) ; n.烈酒 ( alcoholic drink)
• ［例］ He started tippling when his wife left him.

Webster Collegiate

I. verb (tippled; tippling)

• Etymology: back-formation from obsolete tippler alehouse keeper, from Middle English tipler
• Date: 1560
• intransitive verb
  • to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess
• transitive verb
  • to drink (liquor) especially continuously in small amounts
• ? tippler noun

II. noun

• Date: 1581
• 1. drink 1
• 2. drink 2

III. noun

• Etymology: English dialect tipple to tip over, frequentative of English ［sup］1［/sup］tip
• Date: 1880
• 1. a place where or an apparatus by which cars (as for coal) are loaded or emptied
• 2. a coal-screening plant

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