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suck-pint

suck-pint noun: a drunkard.

Noun

suck-pint (plural suck-pints)

  1. (archaic) A drunkard.
    • Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM
    • As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been...1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33
    Synonyms:
    sucker, tosspot

Synonyms of suck-pint

Forms of suck-pint

pluralsuck-pints

Origin of suck-pint

From suck + pint.

Questions about suck-pint

What does suck-pint mean?
Suck-pint means a drunkard.
What part of speech is suck-pint?
Suck-pint is a noun.
What is the plural of suck-pint?
The plural of suck-pint is suck-pints.

Words near suck-pint in the dictionary

  1. suck-asses
  2. suck-boy
  3. suck-boys
  4. suck-out
  5. suck-outs
  6. suck-pint
  7. suck-pints
  8. suck-suck
  9. suck-up
  10. suck-ups
  11. sucka

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