Definition of wine dot in English:

wine dot

noun

Australian informal

A habitual drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol.
there'd always be wine dots drinking themselves to death on the steps of the pub
Example sentencesExamples
- "Ah, I'm sick to bloody death of you old wine-dots," said Tarrant, and thought of how he had missed a party.
- The wine bar with its cheaper accoutrements is likely to flop just as badly as it did 20 years ago; and there we will be: back with the dirty dank interiors, the wine dots, the derelicts and the fourpenny darks.
- We was brought up by a wine dot and an ol' man who never noticed we was alive.
- He, who was his mother's darling, disintegrated into a wrinkled wild-eyed ruin — a wine-dot, a dirty alcoholic.
- "Yah, yer bloody winedot," a thin young villain cried. "You pong like a camel-driver's jockstrap."
- The older I have got, the more I have coveted red burgundies, particularly those that wed the romantic to the carnal, the floral to the animal. This is not uncommon among wine dots.
- The winedot glowered with rheumy eyes, dribbling spittle, and men moved away in disgust.
- I'm a bit of a wine dot, I love a good red.
- The wine dots are happy and I know they're sincere, when they say they don't care if the pubs got no beer.

Origin

1930s: perhaps rhyming slang for sot.

单词	wine dot
释义	Definition of wine dot in English: wine dot noun Australian informal A habitual drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol. there'd always be wine dots drinking themselves to death on the steps of the pub Example sentencesExamples "Ah, I'm sick to bloody death of you old wine-dots," said Tarrant, and thought of how he had missed a party. The wine bar with its cheaper accoutrements is likely to flop just as badly as it did 20 years ago; and there we will be: back with the dirty dank interiors, the wine dots, the derelicts and the fourpenny darks. We was brought up by a wine dot and an ol' man who never noticed we was alive. He, who was his mother's darling, disintegrated into a wrinkled wild-eyed ruin — a wine-dot, a dirty alcoholic. "Yah, yer bloody winedot," a thin young villain cried. "You pong like a camel-driver's jockstrap." The older I have got, the more I have coveted red burgundies, particularly those that wed the romantic to the carnal, the floral to the animal. This is not uncommon among wine dots. The winedot glowered with rheumy eyes, dribbling spittle, and men moved away in disgust. I'm a bit of a wine dot, I love a good red. The wine dots are happy and I know they're sincere, when they say they don't care if the pubs got no beer. Origin 1930s: perhaps rhyming slang for sot.
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