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suck + pint
Noun
suck-pint (plural suck-pints)
- (dated) A drunkard.
1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM:Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.
1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33: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 brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.
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