| 单词 | drink of all nations |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrink of all nations all nations n. slang (now rare) a mixture of alcoholic drinks (esp. spirits), collected from the remnants left in various containers, vessels, etc.; also more fully drink of all nations; cf. allsorts n. 2.It is uncertain whether quot. 1939 belongs at this sense. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > others stitch-broth1635 Cherellya1640 rug1653 steel-nose1654 pope's-milka1661 Northdown1670 purl royal1675 sweetsa1679 forty-ninea1713 huggle-my-buff1756 slug1756 gunpowder1765 guarapo1772 peachy1781 all nations1785 anti-fogmatic1789 soma1827 ava1831 native1832 tap1832 stone fence1844 slap-bang1845 Angostura1856 jake1910 tepache1926 pruno1936 muratina1968 makkoli1970 alcopop1996 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue All Nations, a composition of all the different spirits sold in a dram shop, collected in a vessel, into which the drainings of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied. 1866 Times 28 Aug. 7/5 They give him a drink called ‘all nations’, and after that they will knock any one down. 1884 A. C. J. Gustafson Found. Death iv. 50 At present [‘curious old brown sherry’ is] termed by publicans the drink of all nations, and not limited to wines by any means. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 11 All spoiled goods go into her nabsack: curtrages and rattlin buttins, nappy spattees and flasks of all nations.] 1993 D. Lambdin Gun Ketch v. ii. 171 Had but the one packet ship, and a used-goods chandlery... Inn, chandlery, an ‘all-nations’ dram shop... Sold slop goods and shoddy not fit for anyone but slaves and the idle poor... Condemned salt meats, weevily flour, gin, rum and ratafia brandy. < as lemmas |
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