topern.
/ˈtəʊpə/, U.S. /ˈtoʊpər/ Now chiefly literary.
One who topes or drinks a great deal; a hard drinker; a drunkard.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1673 S'too him Bayes 56 Your right topers now, when a friend begins to flag..use to rouse him up again.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 60 A sturdy piece of flesh, and proper, A merry Grig, and a true Toper.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 86 The cobler..sits among his fellow topers at the two-penny club.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iv. 153 Bacchanalian song By toper chaunted o'er the flowing bowl.
1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit xxxvi. 421 Away with four fresh horses from the Bald-faced Stag, where topers congregate.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 162 Topers are prone to tuberculous affections.
Derivatives
ˈtoperdom n. Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > company of
drunkship1486
pot parliament1529
blacklist1875
toperdom1891
1891 Sc. Leader 30 Dec. 4 Much rejoicing has..been caused in London toperdom by the issue by certain enterprising publicans of ‘free insurances’.
ˈtoperism n. Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > addiction to alcohol or habitual drinking
intemperancy1586
intemperance1617
bibacity1623
dipsomania1843
bibulousness1844
alcoholism1848
potomania1858
inebriacy1876
alcohol problem1879
drink-habit1890
alcohol abuse1891
toperism1896
oenomania1897
drinking-habit1899
bibulosity1901
drinking problem1957
substance abuse1967
1896 Speaker 6 June 618 The besotted toperism of so many of his companions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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