| 释义 |
toper Now chiefly literary.|ˈtəʊpə(r)|
[f. tope v.2 + -er1.]
One who topes or drinks a great deal; a hard drinker; a drunkard.
1673S' too him Bayes 56 Your right topers now, when a friend begins to flag..use to rouse him up again. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scofft 60 A sturdy piece of flesh, and proper, A merry Grig, and a true Toper. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 41 The cobbler..sits among his fellow topers at the two-penny club. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv. 153 Bacchanalian song By toper chaunted o'er the flowing bowl. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxvi. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 162 Topers are prone to tuberculous affections.
Hence ˈtoperdom, ˈtoperism (nonce-wds.).
1891Scott. Leader 30 Dec. 4 Much rejoicing has..been caused in London toperdom by the issue by certain enterprising publicans of ‘free insurances’. 1896Speaker 6 June 618 The besotted toperism of so many of his companions. |