dimidium dimidiumque
English
Etymology
Humorously Latinized version of "half and half", once used by students.
Noun
dimidium dimidiumque (uncountable)
- (UK, slang, obsolete, humorous) half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)
- 1848, Albert Smith, Angus Bethune Reach, The Man in the Moon (volume 3, page 107)
- And when the young Anglo-Roma Gents went out between the acts, in order to imbibe dimidium dimidiumque, or gingiber, (doubtless the ginger-beer of the moderns,) they received at the theatre door […]
- 1893, Charles Thomas Paske, Frederick George Aflalo, Myamma: A Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah (page 153)
- I was still fresh, which was something; a trifle warm perhaps, and well disposed towards a pint of the dimidium dimidiumque of the ancients had such been available, but, in default of nectar, I sought another comforter, […]
- 1848, Albert Smith, Angus Bethune Reach, The Man in the Moon (volume 3, page 107)
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary