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▪ I. tippling, vbl. n.1|ˈtɪplɪŋ|
[In form and sense, the ordinary vbl. n. in -ing1 from tipple v.1; as to date, etc., see the latter.]
The action of tipple v.1
†1. The retailing of ale or other strong drink; the business of a ‘tippler’ (tippler1 1). Obs.
1531in W. H. Turner Select Rec. Oxford (1880) 106 Persons that occupye any typpellyng or coblers crafte. 1579Ibid. 400 To be discharged from keepinge of any tipplinge. 1550–1in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (1892) 87 Amercyd for typplyng of ale and bere with unlawfull metts & measures. 1594in J. Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers (1877) 280 Also Dorothy Browne, widow who..was heretofore discharged in open sessions from brewing and tippling.
2. The drinking of intoxicating drink, esp. in small quantities and often; habitual indulgence in liquor (to some degree of excess, but usually not amounting to positive drunkenness).
1567Let. in A. Jenkinson's Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 214 If this typling be not left we will sende no more wyne. 1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 406 Perpetual Tiplings and large drinking Bouts. 1771Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 152 Preventing tippling on the Lord's day, spending the time in alehouses. 1868Regul. & Ord. Army ⁋942 No tippling or gambling is to be allowed in any of the barrack rooms.
3. attrib. and Comb. (See also tippling-house.)
Tippling Act, Act 24 Geo. II, c. 40.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 135 But in the ende..this bribing wretch was forced for to hold a typling booth, most like a clowne or snuch. 1616Sylvester Tobacco Battered 215 'Tis vented most in Taverns, Tippling-cots, To Ruffians, Roarers, Tipsie-Tostie-pots. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1628) 55 We liue wholly by Tippling-Innes and Ale-Houses. 1755W. Duncan Cicero's Sel. Orat. xvi. (1816) 623 Under his roofs are..tippling-shops instead of dining rooms. 1784Cowper Task vi. 695 The rabble all alive From tipling-benches..Swarm in the streets.
▪ II. ˈtippling, vbl. n.2 dial.
[f. tipple v.2 + -ing1.]
The binding of hay in tipples.
1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) III. 194 The expense of tipling did not exceed five shillings a statute acre. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. I. 401 Tippling..he considers..to be not only a cheap, but a superior mode of making hay.
▪ III. ˈtippling, ppl. a.
[f. tipple v.1 + -ing2.]
That tipples.
†1. That carries on the business of a ‘tippler’ (tippler1 1); that sells liquor by retail. Obs.
a1500Chester Pl., Harrow. Hell (Shaks. Soc.) II. 82 With all tiplinge tapsters that are cuninge, Mysspendinge moche maulte, brewinge so theyne. 1552Huloet, Typplyng wyfe, stabularia mulier.
2. That habitually indulges (to some excess) in strong drink; given to drinking.
1567Harman Caveat 59 One of these tipling Tinckers..robbed by the high way iiij Pallyards. 1693J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 210 Bacchus..the poets tippling deity. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlviii, That tippling body, the Captain. 1872J. Timbs Clubs & Club Life i. 146 A merry company of tippling citizens and jocular change-brokers. |