| 单词 | cheer-upping cup |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheer-upping cup Of an alcoholic drink: reviving; comforting. Chiefly in cheer-upping cup. Cf. chirruping adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > cheering chirruping glass1683 cherishing-cup1689 cheer-upping cup1720 1720 4th Vol. Wks. T. Brown (new ed.) 229 He would take a chearupping [1711 Cherupping] Cup off in a Corner. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. 328 They..retired to comfort themselves with a cheer-upping Cup. 1750 T. Short Disc. Tea, Sugar, &c. iii. ix. 424 About the 38th Year of my Age I indulged a freer cheer-upping Glass of Wine, always moderately. 1766 Mr. Hylton True Resignation in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems VI. 280 Colin's good dame..Had taken too freely the cheeruping cup. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 18 When the Lowlanders want to drink a chearupping-cup, they go to the public house, called the Change-house, and call for a chopine of two-penny. 1832 Greenland Voy. in W. Hone Year Bk. Daily Recreation 412/2 Come turn up the boats, let's put on our coats, And to Ben's, there's a cheerupping [1725 chirriping] cup. < as lemmas |
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