BOON COMPANION
(a good fellow, originally denoted a drinking companion)
NOUNS, PERSON
1225 ► BELLAMY a boon companion; a good or intimate friend → obs.
1386 ► LOUKE a boon companion → obs.
1571 ► FRANION a boon companion; a gay reckless fellow; an idle dissolute fellow; a loose, licentious person → obs.
1597 ► EPHESIAN a boon companion; a jolly fellow; a roisterer; a toper; a drunkard → obs.
1618 ► POT COMPANION a boon companion; a companion in drinking, a fellow drinker, a good fellow at drinking bouts
1663 ► DEAR HEART a boon companion → obs.
1666 ► FUDDLECAP a boon companion; a hard drinker; a drunkard; a tippler → obs.
1670 ► TOAST a boon companion; a person who drinks to excess; a brisk old fellow fond of his glass → sl. obs.
1698 ► OLD TOAST a boon companion; a brisk old fellow fond of his liquor; one who drinks to excess; a drunkard → sl.
1706 ► GINKER a boon companion; a person devoted to amusement; a libertine → Sc.
L18.. ► JOLLY DOG a boon companion → sl.
1811 ► LAD a boon companion; a man; a husband, or son; a fellow → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1905 ► THRUT a boon companion → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► THRUTCH a boon companion → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► THRUTCHER a boon companion → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BOTTLE-CRONY a boon companion → Sc. (Bk.)
1968 ► POT ALLY a drinking companion (Bk.)
1968 ► POT MATE a drinking companion (Bk.)