单词 | under-skinker |
释义 | † under-skinkern. Obsolete. (under- prefix1 3a(a): see skinker n. 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > tapster or barmaid > inferior under-skinker1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 23 This peniworth of sugar, clapt euen now into my hand by an vnderskinker . View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. iv. sig. H3v Ile see and I can be entertained to my old trade of drawing wine: if't be but an under skinker, I care not. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 706 Under-skinker, assistant to the purser's steward.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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