half pintn.adj.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 6 Cannes of two stope..Pyntes and half-pyntes.

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Hemina, a measure..whyche lacketh two ounces of our halfe pynte, and conteyneth in weight of oyle .ix. ounces, of wyne .x. ounces, of hony .xv. ounces.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Demi-sextier, the quarter of a French pinte, and much about our halfe pinte.

1687 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 421 The constables..shall..provide, upon the town charge, one bushel, one half bushel, one peck, one half peck, one ale quart, one wine pint, one half pint.

1773 Pract. Brit. & French Hosp. 204 Take..red wine, a half pint; a living pigeon or chicken, plucked; put the whole into a new earthen pipkin [etc.].

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xi. 107 I..fell upon roast pork..and a foaming half-pint.

1983 Old-house Jrnl. June 111/3 Japan colors are $3 to $6.10 for a half pint.

2015 Mirror (Nexis) 6 Oct. A couple of half pints and a gin and tonic leaves me hungover!

1875 Overland Monthly Sept. 238/1 They did not know the baby's name... They spoke of it as ‘it’, and they named it ‘Little Half-pint’.

1929 W. R. Burnett Little Caesar iv. ii. 117 ‘Here's the half-pint,’ said Killer Pepi, pushing Joe Sansone forward.

1984 Battle Picture Libr. 75/1 The army doc would laugh for a week if he was asked to pass that half-pint fit for active service!

2008 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Nov. s6 Every little half-pint wanted to be an alpine skier because that's what they see all the time, that's who their idols are.

1611 J. Donne in T. Coryate Crudities sig. d3^v Can all carouse vp thee? No: thou must fit Measures; and fill out for the half-pinte wit.

1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 301/1 The half-pint universe of my laboratory Drosophila, in its quiet incubator.

1938 P. G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine xvii. 200 That wonder girl in whose half-pint person were combined all the lovely qualities of woman of which he had so often dreamed.

2002 Times 27 June (T2 section) 13/2 A half-pint 14-year-old who has a crucial English homework assignment stolen.

1652 C. Manuche Loyal Lovers ii. 21 The Rogue drinks like a fish, and shee plyes Him with half pinte draughts.

1727 E. Smith Compl. Housewife 155 Pour it into half pint Basons.

1744 G. Berkeley Let. 21 Aug. in Wks. (1871) IV. 299 Either in half-pint or quarter-pint glasses.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 186 An old half-pint bottle.

a1860 A. Smith London Med. Student (1861) 103 A lot of half-pint cups, egg-shells, mutton-chop bones, and pewter spoons flew up in the air.

1937 Discovery Sept. 277/1 Fill a half-pint mug.

1966 ‘E. McGirr’ Funeral was in Spain 101 The barman..was morosely polishing half-pint glasses.

2004 Vegetarian Times May 54/2 Pour into hot, sterilized half-pint jars.