| 单词 | whisky priest |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhisky priest whisky priest n. a habitually drunken priest. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker > specifically a priest whisky priest1939 1939 G. Greene Lawless Roads vi. 161 ‘He was just what we call a whisky priest.’.. He had taken one of his sons to be baptized, but the priest was drunk. 1971 H. C. Rae Marksman i. iii. 19 With cheap striped pyjamas buttoned close around his throat Doyle looked like a whisky priest in a penal settlement. 1977 Times 4 Aug. 10/5 The communist equivalent of one of those Greeneland fables wherein a whisky priest rallies..to strike a blow for the God he no longer believes in. < as lemmas |
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