Suck-pint
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Suck-pint is a noun meaning (dated) A drunkard.
Meaning
(dated) A drunkard.
Example Sentences
Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.
As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.
Word Forms
- suck-pints
Synonyms for suck-pint
Depending on context, synonyms include sucker, tosspot.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pintman, sucker, drinker, rinse-pitcher, pegger, slotch.
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