What does drinking-cup mean?
Drinking-cup means A cup for drinking.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A cup for drinking.
He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.
"He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […]"
Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.
A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick.
If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.
Use drinking-cup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drinking-cup means A cup for drinking.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.
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