sneak-cup
sneak-cup noun: someone who is deemed to not drink their share during communal drinking sessions.
Noun
sneak-cup (plural sneak-cups)
- Someone who is deemed to not drink their share during communal drinking sessions.
- How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an / he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he / would say so.c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, act 2, scene 3
- A sneaker was originally a smaller drinking mug or beaker than was ordinarily used, and was drunk from by a "sneak-cup," that contemptible creature who wished to shrink from his convivial duties by "balking his drink," or, to speak plainly, who wished to drink less than his companions fancied he...1892, Alice Morse Earle, “George and Martha Washington's China”, in China Collecting in America, published 1906, pages 237–238
Forms of sneak-cup
| plural | sneak-cups |
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Origin of sneak-cup
From sneak + cup.
Questions about sneak-cup
- What does sneak-cup mean?
- Sneak-cup means someone who is deemed to not drink their share during communal drinking sessions.
- What part of speech is sneak-cup?
- Sneak-cup is a noun.
- What is the plural of sneak-cup?
- The plural of sneak-cup is sneak-cups.
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