α. 1800s– dog's nose, 1800s– dogs nose.
β. 1900s– dog nose.
单词 | dogs nose |
释义 | dog's nosen.α. 1800s– dog's nose, 1800s– dogs nose. β. 1900s– dog nose. Now rare. A drink made of beer and brandy or (more usually) gin, sometimes with other ingredients added (see quot. 1837). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cocktail > [noun] > spirits and beer or ale purl1659 flip1695 hotpot1698 humpty-dumpty1698 upright1796 dog's nose1823 cobbler's punch1865 horse's neck1903 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 69 Dog's nose, or, half a pint of beer cold as a dog's nose is, with a glass of brandy mixt, and still it will be no warmer. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 348 He is not certain whether he did not twice a week, for twenty years, taste ‘dog's nose’, which your committee find..to be compounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg. 1853 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 113/2 He had imbibed, before nine o'clock, the impossible quantity of half a gallon of dogs-nose, or some equally delectable compound. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. v. 87 The sergeant..brought up his own mug of beer, into which a noggin of gin had been put (called in Yorkshire ‘dog's-nose’). 1889 Sat. Rev. 9 Nov. 519/1 Dog's-nose, egg-hot, ruddle, and the like are agreeable stimulants on a frosty night. 1917 C. Morley in Essays (1928) 54 Let there be a loin of cold beef, an elbow of yellow cheese, a tankard of dog's nose. 2007 M. Darton Dog the Wag 89 ‘Dogs nose’..apparently meant (and in some bars still means) a mixture of gin and beer, involving twelve parts of beer to one of gin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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