wineskinn.
/ˈwʌɪnskɪn/, U.S. /ˈwaɪnˌskɪn/ 1. A bag, pouch, or similar container for wine made from the skin of an animal; (later sometimes also more generally) any container for wine of a similar shape.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > bottle > leather wine bottle
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1700 J. Stevens tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. x. 301 You had to do with two Wine-skins, and not with a Gyant, said the Inn-keeper.
1820 Galignani's Repertory Jan. 295 A cup, or rather a whole manufactory of cups, makes its appearance, and a wine-skin is brought forward.
1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 148/2 The guards remarked a clown driving along an ass laden with wine skins.
1919 ‘G. Thorne’ Doris Moore xviii. 262 An excellent supper and a cup of ‘Mavrodaphne’ from a great wine skin soothed him.
1978 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 91 625 One who has never experienced it [sc. New Orleans Carnival] may think only of the stereotyped image of a drunken debauch—in recent years hippies quaffing Annie Green Springs from plastic wineskins.
2003 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Apr. 13/4 Harmodius and Aristogeiton are represented..as revellers not assassins, Aristogeiton holding a wineskin in place of his sword.
2. figurative. A person who drinks copiously or to excess; a drunkard.Also occasionally (and in earliest use) in similative contexts (see quot. 1821).
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
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1821 W. Scott Kenilworth III. iv. 63 This fellow can appear before him drunk as a wine-skin, and yet meet no rebuke.
1825 W. Scott Talisman xi, in Tales Crusaders III. 272 You have been dining with the Teutonic wine-skin.
1889 J. Davidson Plays 141 This old wine-skin, Silenus, is just the idea your worthy patrons have of what Bacchus must be after a supposed debauch extending from end to end of the Christian era.
1928 E. Waugh Decline & Fall x. 113 Hullo, Prendy, old wine-skin! How are things with you?
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 Apr. 24 The Caedmon version [of The Tempest] has Michael Redgrave as Prospero, Vanessa Redgrave as Ariel, Hugh Griffith..as a Welsh wineskin of a Caliban, Anna Massey as Miranda and even Ronnie Barker as one of the clowns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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