cupster
English
Etymology
From cup + -ster. Compare cupper.
Noun
cupster (plural cupsters)
- (rare) a cupper
- 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.
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- (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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Synonyms
- (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Anagrams
- precuts