lick-wimble
English
Etymology
lick + wimble
Noun
lick-wimble (plural lick-wimbles)
- (obsolete) A drunkard.
- c. 1638, Brathwait, Richard, “Laws of Drinking”, in Haslewood, Joseph, editor, Barnabae Itinerarium: Or Barnabee's Journal, volume 1, published 1820, page 208:
- […] I bind me, my heires, Ale-squires, pot-companions, Lick-wimbles, Maltwormes, Vine-fretters, and other faithfull Drunkards firmely by these presents: […]
- c. 1642, A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting.:
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:drunkard