suck-pint

suck-pint

English

Etymology

suck +‎ pint

Noun

suck-pint (plural suck-pints)

1. (dated) A drunkard.
   • 1611, Cotgrave, Randle, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM:

     Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.

   • 1903, Henley, William Ernest, 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.

Synonyms

• sucker, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

Related terms

• suck-bottle, suck-can, suck-pot, suck-spigot

Anagrams

• nutpicks, pintucks