| 单词 | to suck the monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto suck (also sup) the monkey P2. to suck (also sup) the monkey: to drink wine or spirits from a cask (esp. surreptitiously) through a straw or tube inserted in a small hole; to drink wine from the bottle; (also) to drink from a coconut shell. Hence: to tipple. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386 bibc1400 to kiss the cupa1420 drawa1500 refresh1644 mug1653 bub1654 jug1681 whiffle1693 dram1740 wet1783 to suck (also sup) the monkey1785 stimulate1800 lush1811 taste1823 liquor1839 oil1841 paint1853 irrigate1856 nip1858 smile1858 peg1874 gargle1889 shicker1906 stop1924 bevvy1934 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] to drink deepa1300 bousec1300 bibc1400 to drink drunk1474 quaff1520 to set cock on the hoopa1535 boll1535 quass1549 tipple1560 swillc1563 carouse1567 guzzle1579 fuddle1588 overdrink1603 to drink the three outs1622 to bouse it1623 sota1639 drifflec1645 to drink like a fisha1653 tope1668 soak1687 to play at swig1688 to soak one's clay (or face)1704 impote1721 rosin1730 dram1740 booze1768 to suck (also sup) the monkey1785 swattle1785 lush1811 to lift up the little finger1812 to lift one's (or the) elbow1823 to crook one's elbow or little finger1825 jollify1830 to bowse up the jib1836 swizzle1847 peg1874 to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889 to tank up1902 sozzle1937 to belt the bottle1941 indulge1953 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue sig. Q2v To suck the monkey, to suck, or draw wine, or any other liquor privately out of a cask, by means of a straw. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. ii. 63 Thee hadst been sucking the monkey. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl V. iii. 92 A goodish wench in the main, if one keeps a sharp look out after her, else she will sup the monkey. 1821 W. Scott Pirate III. xii. 282 Why, he has sucked the monkey so long and so often..that the best of him is buff'd. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xi. 183 Do you know what ‘sucking the monkey’ means?.. It is a term used among seamen, for drinking rum out of cocoa-nuts, the milk having been poured out. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 21 Besides, what the vulgar call ‘sucking the monkey’ Has much less effect on a man when he's funky. 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. (1865) I. xiii. 357 Taking ‘a suck at the monkey’ (otherwise the whisky flask). 1868 Star 27 Mar. Three men..were charged with an offence called ‘sucking the monkey’, but in legal phraseology feloniously stealing, taking, and carrying away brandy from a cask in the London Dock. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 5/3 ‘Sucking the Monkey’..was the cause of the death of a dock labourer... He had driven in the bung of a cask of brandy, and having had a good draught of the liquor, became unconscious. 1980 J. E. Valle Rocks & Shoals vii. 203 This practice of drawing hidden liquor out of a cask or other container by means of a straw was known among the sailors as ‘sucking the monkey’. 1992 V. Randolph & G. Legman Roll me in your Arms 427 When I asked what ‘sucking the monkey’ meant, he told me cheerfully it was ‘an old Army word’ for drinking whiskey straight, out of the bung-hole of a barrel. < as lemmas |
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