rinse-pitcher
rinse-pitcher noun: a drunkard.
Noun
rinse-pitcher (plural rinse-pitchers)
- A drunkard.
- Rince Pytcher is he that will drinke out his thrift at the ale or wine, and be oft times dronke. This is a licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink, and brybe his meate that is kept for him.[1561, John Awdely, “The Orders of Knaues”, in The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; republished in Edward Viles, Frederick James Furnivall, editors, Awdeley's Fraternitye of Vacabondes, Harman's Caveat...
- What the godly Cromwell saw in this Royalist rinse-pitcher it is now difficult to assess — but he sought him for his son-in-law.1971, Allen Andrews, The Royal Whore: Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, page 9
- Synonyms:
- squeeze-grape, swill-pot, toper
Synonyms of rinse-pitcher
Forms of rinse-pitcher
| plural | rinse-pitchers |
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Origin of rinse-pitcher
From rinse + pitcher.
Questions about rinse-pitcher
- What does rinse-pitcher mean?
- Rinse-pitcher means a drunkard.
- What part of speech is rinse-pitcher?
- Rinse-pitcher is a noun.
- What is the plural of rinse-pitcher?
- The plural of rinse-pitcher is rinse-pitchers.
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