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English
Etymology
From Middle English copster, coppester, cuppestere, equivalent to cup + -ster. Compare cupper.
Noun
cupster (plural cupsters)
- (rare) A cupper (one who performs the medical operation of cupping).
1916, Janus - Volume 21:To prevent other sources of infection, originating from the practizing of this office the Leyden magistrate ordered in the year 1519, that no plague-masters, barbers, cupsters or scrubsters should throw in.
- (rare) A drunkard.
1909, Max Beerbohm, Yet Again:And yonder, that old cupster, Silenus, that horrible old favourite, wobbles along on a donkey, and would tumble off, you may be sure, were he not upheld by two fairly sober Satyrs.
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