What does suck-pint mean?
Suck-pint means (dated) A drunkard..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(dated) A drunkard..
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.
Use suck-pint when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Suck-pint means (dated) A drunkard..
Common synonyms include sucker, tosspot.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.
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