reel-pot
English
Etymology
reel (“to walk unsteadily”) + pot
Noun
reel-pot (plural reel-pots)
- (obsolete) A drunkard.
- 1604, Middleton, Thomas, Plato's Cap Cast at the Year 1604:
- And lastly some shall have a palsy in their feet, and will not be able to stand to anything but shake and reel from the stall into the channel—your excellent reel-pots.
- 1604, Middleton, Thomas, The Black Book:
- There I heard news out of all countries in all languages: how many villains were in Spain, how many luxurs in Italy, how many perjureds in France and how many reel-pots in Germany.
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Synonyms
- squeeze-grape, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard