| 单词 | rumhound |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrumhound rumhound n. U.S. (colloquial) (a) a hard drinker; a drunkard, an alcoholic; (b) an agent upholding Prohibition (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker supper?1529 blow-bowl1530 drunkard1530 drunkera1538 blow-bottle1580 tippler1580 potman1589 red nose1591 sot1592 water rat1593 ply-pot1611 potter1632 pothead1639 pisspot1655 pitcher-man1665 whetter1709 inebriate1794 rummy1843 alcoholic1852 oenomaniac1857 dipsomaniac1858 alcoholizer1880 alcoholist1888 potationist1888 lush1890 rumdum1891 rumhound1895 blacklister1904 dipso1923 rumpot1929 alky1944 juice-head1955 alcohol abuser1965 juicer1967 substance abuser1967 jakey1988 1895 Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. New Jersey 353 Keep up to the times in everything and keep away from rum hounds. 1920 G. Ade Hand-made Fables 5 Just as the western Sun was ducking behind the Hills, the amateur Rum-Hounds piled out. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 192 What he resented was the insinuation that he was a chronic rumhound. 1995 New Yorker 20 Mar. 52/1 When a clergyman answered he said—not knowing quite why—that he was a ‘rumhound from New York’ who needed ‘to speak now’ with another alcoholic. < as lemmas |
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