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单词 south sea mountain
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South Sea mountain
South Sea mountain n. Obsolete slang gin.
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1725 New Canting Dict. South-Sea Mountain, Geneva.
1726 Tavern Scuffle 8 You know the ill Effects of your South-Sea Mountain, and therefore choose better Liquors for your own drinking.
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue South Sea, mountain, gin.
1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold iii. i. 256 But, mind you, she's a rum 'un, and as fond of ‘a line of the old author’ (brandy), or a drop of the ‘South Sea Mountain’ (gin), as any ‘doxy’ (woman) in Stafford.
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