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rosiner Ir. and Austral. slang.|ˈrɒzɪnə(r)| Also rosner, rossiner, rozener. [f. rosin n. or v. + -er1.] A drink of spirits; a stiff drink. Also transf.
1932D. Johnston Moon in Yellow River i. 35 Well, you must step across to the store some time and we'll give you a rosner. 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 10 May 20/1 Fill up the cup, a rozener, a hummer! 1934S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 119 ‘And the rosiners’ said Mrs. Tough, ‘will you have that in the lav too?’ Reader, a rosiner is a drop of the hard. 1947H. D. Brockman Fatal Days 114 I've not had a solitary spot since four. I need a rosiner. 1954T. Ronan Vision Splendid 345 Two nips that old Block had and the one I poured into Peter. They were rozeners I'll admit, but still the three I've had out of this second bottle haven't exactly been small ones. a1966‘M. na Gopaleen’ Best of Myles (1977) 310 A rossiner wouldn't be bad, have a double one after this. 1973D. Stuart Morning Star, Evening Star 53 There's no harm in a bit of rosiner after a hard day's travel, just once in a while. |