| 单词 | bottle companion |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottle companion C4. attributive. Designating a person with whom one (habitually) drinks alcohol, as bottle companion, bottle friend. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinker > fellow drinker companion?1505 bowl-fellow1509 pot-companion1549 potpanionc1580 pot-mate1603 compotanta1624 dear heart1669 bottle companiona1689 bottle frienda1689 compotator1731 tavern-fellow1899 pub-friend1959 a1689 A. Behn Adventure Black Lady 6 in Hist. & Novels (1698) The Gentleman..order'd the Coach to drive to some of his Bottle-Companions. 1696 Tryal & Condemnation of Sir John Friend 23 I cant say I am intimately acquainted with him; he was never my Bottle Friend. 1761 Monthly Rev. Mar. 184 The Major..is..a good bottle-companion, has a strong head, but not much stored with brains. 1796 R. Burns Honest Man (1797) 5 One spouse is worth ten thousand bottle-friends. 1837 E. Smallwood Manuella I. xi. 166 Montreil..instantly recognised his bottle-chum, MacMaw. 1898 Navy & Army Illustr. 5 Nov. 163/2 Feeling doubly wretched at this withdrawal of his principal ally and bottle-comrade. 1901 Q. Rev. Jan. 35 The blundering penitence of his dull-headed bottle companion. 1994 D. F. Fariello in R. W. Surber Clin. Case Managem. viii. 149 He knew few people outside of the mental health programs and his ‘bottle buddies’ with whom he drank. 2004 E. Donoghue Life Mask (2005) i. 58 Mentor and bottle friend to the Prince of Wales. < as lemmas |
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