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dog's nose, dog's-nose
A name given to a mixed liquor, compounded of beer and gin, or of ale and rum: see quots.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict. (Farmer). 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxiii, He is not certain whether he did not twice a week, for twenty years, taste ‘dog's nose’, which your committee find upon inquiry, to be compounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg. 1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1862) 19 Rum, or ale, or a mixture of both called ‘dog's nose’. 1863― Sylvia's L. III. 87 The serjeant..brought up his own mug of beer, into which a noggin of gin had been put (called in Yorkshire ‘dog's nose’). |