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drinker|ˈdrɪŋkə(r)|
[f. drink v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who drinks.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xi. 19 Etere & drincere wines. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxxvi. (1495) 624 The rote of Carduus sod in water gyuyth appetyte to drynkers. 1520Caxton's Chron. Eng. vi. 68/2 Whan one dranke to another the drynker sholde saye Wassayle. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 125 The drinkers commonly stand to be helped with water. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 324 As a rule sherry drinkers are soundly-minded persons.
b. spec. One who indulges to excess in intoxicating liquor; a tippler, a drunkard.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 55 On swiche drinkeres cumeð godes curs. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 319/690 Proud and wemod, and drinkare. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 77 Some sayed he was..a drincker, a pot-companion. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 100 That tankard-lifting Zeno..was such a drinker, that hee would often lye as one dead.
c. Qualified by adjs. great, hard, small, etc., indicating the amount of liquor habitually taken.
1340Ayenb. 47 Þe mochele drinkeres. 1387Trevisa Higden vi. ix. (Tollem. MS.) The Danes were grete drynkers by kynde. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme vi. 614 Some say that a great drinker shall neuer become drunke, if he weare a wreath of Iua moscata about his head. 1641Baker Chron. an. 1580 (R.) The English..were hitherto the least drinkers. 1725Swift Let. to Worrall 27 Aug. Lett. 1766 II. 49 You have been all your life a great walker, and a little drinker. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 179 They are horrid Drinkers. Mod. His father was a hard drinker.
2. (In full drinker-moth). The popular name of a large European moth, Lasiocampa (Odonestis) potatoria, of the family Bombycidæ, so called from its long suctorial proboscis.
1682M. Lister Goedart. Albin. pl. xvii, Drinker-Caterpillar. 1749B. Wilkes Brit. Moths (1773) pl. 58. 1865 Wood Homes without H. xiv. (1868) 288 The fur-clad Drinker Moth. 1871E. F. Staveley Brit. Insects 270 The downy, large-winged Drinker.
3. A drinking-trough.
1947All-Pets Mag. May 5 Keeping..plenty of cool water in drinkers for them [sc. canaries]. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Nov. 447/2 The only satisfactory place for drinkers other than specially designed and expensive systems is outside the floor space of the [hen] house. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. Suppl. 37/2 If the brooder has fitted food troughs and drinkers.
Hence ˈdrinkeress, a female drinker.
1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. III. 188. |