DRINK etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
1250 — GULCHCUP a person who drains the cup greedily, a tosspot → obs.
1340 — TAVERNER a person who frequents a tavern; a tippler → obs.
1400 — GLOBBER → GLUBBER a person who drinks gluttonously → obs.
1440 — BIRLER a person who pours out drink; a butler; the master of the revels at a sale, or a bidding-wedding, whose duties it is to superintend the refreshments, and ‘birl’ out the wine or other drink → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1520 — QUAFFER a greedy drinker
1534 — BENCHER a person rollicking idly on a tavern bench; a tavern loafer
1536 — BIBBER a habitual drinker
1542 — BENCH-WHISTLER a person who sits idly whistling on a tavern bench; a tavern loafer → depreciative usage, obs.
1542 — SWILL-BOWL a person who drinks to excess; a drunkard; one who habitually ‘swills the bowl’ → obs.
1549 — BENCH-BABBLER a person who sits idly whistling on a bench; a tavern loafer; one rollicking idly on a tavern bench
1550 — MALTWORM a lover of malt liquor; a toper; a beer drinker
1556 — ALE-KNIGHT a person who frequents public houses, a drunkard → arch.
1556 — BIBBILER → BIBBLER → BIBLER a drinker, a tippler
1562 — BELLY-SLAVE a person devoted to drinking and eating → obs.
1577 — MALT-BUG a lover of malt liquor; a toper; a lover of beer → obs.
1580 — TIPPLER a relatively restrained drinker of alcohol
1581 — SYMPOSIAC a member of a drinking party; a banqueter → obs.
1587 — POT-KNIGHT a drinker, a ‘knight of the pot’; a tippler
1589 — POT-MAN a habitual drinker → obs.
1590 — BLACK-POT a drinker; a toper → UK obs.
1592 — BEZZLE a hard drinker; a sot → obs.
1593 — BEAZLER a heavy drinker; a sot; a bezzler → obs.
1593 — BEZZLER a person who drinks much → obs.
1593 — MALT-HORSE a drinker, a tippler → sl.
1593 — SOAKER a drinker of alcohol → sl.
1596 — ADMIRAL OF THE RED a heavy drinker, traditionally with a red nose → Eng. sl.
1597 — EPHESIAN a drinker, a toper → obs.
1598 — BARLEY-CAP a drinker; a tippler → obs.
1598 — SWILLER a person who drinks greedily or to excess
1599 — ROB-POT a deep drinker; a drunkard → obs.
1600 — BEER BARREL a beer drinker → sl.
..E17 — AFTER-DINNER MAN a person who drinks after the noon meal and well into the evening; a drunkard → Brit. sl.
1601 — WINE-KNIGHT a person who drinks valiantly → obs.
1606 — BOOZER a drinker of alcohol → sl.
1611 — CUP-WAITER a person who serves liquor at a meal or feast → obs.
1611 — PLY-POT a person addicted to drinking; one who plies the pot → obs.
1611 — SIPPER a drinker; a toper
1611 — WHIP-CAN a drinker; a tippler → obs.
1612 — BIB-ALL-NIGHT a heavy drinker → colloq.
1615 — AFTERNOON’S MAN a habitual drinker of alcohol; a man given to drinking alcohol after the midday meal
1616 — KILL-POT a heavy drinker, a toper
1617 — BACCHANALIAN a drinker; a tippler; a drunken reveller
1618 — POT COMPANION a drinking companion, a fellow drinker, a good fellow at drinking bouts
1623 — VINIPOTE a wine drinker
1628 — AFTERNOON MAN a habitual drinker of alcohol; a man given to drinking alcohol after the midday meal
1630 — POT-LEECH a drinker, a person who ‘sucks’ or drinks out of a pot; a toper; a drunkard; one who drinks to excess → obs.
1637 — BIBERON a drinker, a tippler → obs.
1639 — BANG-PITCHER a drinker; a tippler → obs.
1650 — BACHELOR OF LAW a drinker with ‘a purple face’ → sl.
1650 — MAD GREEK a heavy drinker → sl.
1653 — SWILL-POT an excessive drinker; one who swills a bowl (flagon, pot)
1656 — SYMPOSIAST a member of a drinking party; a banqueter
1657 — POTER a drinker, a toper
1666 — FUDDLECAP a hard drinker, a tippler → obs.
1670 — TOAST a person who drinks to excess; a brisk old fellow fond of his glass → sl. obs.
1673 — TOPER a heavy drinker → chiefly literary usage
1679 — HARD DRINKER a person who drinks to excess
1690 — BUBBER a great drinker → sl. obs.
1698 — OLD TOAST a brisk old fellow fond of his liquor; one who drinks to excess → sl.
1700 — SWILL-BELLY a great drinker → obs.
1700 — TICKLE-PITCHER a heavy drinker; a sot → sl.
..E18 — VINTNER a heavy drinker → sl.
1704 — GUZZLER a heavy drinker of alcohol
1727 — BENDER a drinker → Sc.
1727 — MULTIBIBE a great or heavy drinker → obs.
1728 — BEND a hard drinker → Sc. obs.
1731 — COMPOTATOR a fellow-drinker; one who drinks with another
1735 — IMBIBER a drinker; one who imbibes
1747 — SON OF BACCHUS a drinker; a tippler
.M18 — PARSON PALMER a person who stops a communal glass circulating by talking before passing it on → sl.
1787 — HARD-HEAD a person not easily affected by alcohol
1788 — GUZZLE-GUTS a heavy drinker → sl.
1792— MODERATIONIST a person who is in favour of moderate drinking, as opposed to total abstinence
..19C — LICK-WIMBLE a heavy drinker; a drunkard who would lick the stopper in a cask to get at the alcohol → Brit. colloq.
..19C — THIRSTINGTON a hard drinker → sl.
1803 — SIPER an immoderate drinker; a toper → N. Eng. dial.
1805 — TIPER a person who drinks greedily → Eng. dial.
1815 — GLASS-BREAKER a hard drinker; a tippler → Sc.
1817 — GILRAVAGER a person who drinks to excess; one who indulges in noisy or drunken merrymaking or feasting → Sc.
1820 — DAFFIER a gin drinker → sl.
1820 — SOAK a drinker of alcohol
1821 — POLYPOSIST a heavy drinker
1822 — GILL-SIPPER a drinker, a tippler → Sc. obs.
1823 — BIBBELER a habitual drinker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1823 — BINGO-MOT(T) a female dram drinker → UK sl.
1824 — SAND-BED an insatiable drinker; one who ‘absorbs’ much liquor → Sc.
1825 — GUDDLER a great drinker; one who is fond of liquor → Eng. dial.
1825 — RAFFING FALLOWS ranting, roaring, drinking fellows → Sc.
1828 — HERO OF THE SPIGOT a drinker of alcohol
1828 — SIT-FAST a habitual drinker; one who sits long or is fast bound to his cups; a drunkard → Eng. dial.
1830 — CUP-MAN a drinker; a toper
1831 — GABIATOR a person who takes great pleasure in eating and drinking → Sc.
1836 — SWIPER a copious drinker → colloq.
1841 — BEER-BIBBER a beer drinker
1845 — BEER-GUZZLER a heavy drinker of beer → sl.
1847 — ABUSER a person who abuses alcohol
.M19 — LAPPER a heavy drinker → Brit. colloq.
1851 — RUMMY a drinker of alcohol → sl., chiefly US
1855 — GIN SLINGER a gin drinker
1857 — OENOMANIAC a person having an insane craving for wine or other intoxicating drink
1859 — BINGO-BOY a drinker; a tippler → US gang sl.
1866 — BEER JERKER a heavy drinker of beer → US sl.
1867 — GIN PIG a habitual gin-drinker → US sl.
1867 — OLD BEESWING a genial drinker → sl.
1869 — BEERHEAD a beer drinker → US sl.
1869 — GINHEAD a gin drinker → sl., orig. US
1873 — BEER-SWAB a drinker; a beer sot; a drunkard → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1873 — MOP a heavy drinker → US sl. (Bk.)
1876 — BEER-PUNISHER a heavy drinker of beer → US sl.
1876 — DICK SMITH a person who drinks alone; one who does not buy drinks for others, or who depends on others to buy them → Amer. dial.
1878 — BEER-BUZZER a person who frequents saloons in the hope of cadging free beer → US sl.
1883 — BIBULANT a person fond of drinking
1886 — ZOKE a drinker; a sot → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1887 — BEER-EATER a great consumer of beer, one who more than drinks it, who lives on it → sl.
1887 — GIN-AND-TATTERS a dilapidated dram-drinker → colloq.
1887 — POT-WALLOPER a heavy drinker → sl.
1889 — BAR-LOAFER an idler at a bar
1889 — BEER-CHEWER a heavy drinker of beer → Aust. sl.
1889 — BEERSUCKER a heavy drinker of beer → Aust. sl.
1889 — HEISTER a heavy drinker → US sl.
1890 — BARREL-BOARDER a person who frequents low drinking saloons → US sl.
1890 — LUSH a drinker of alcohol → sl., chiefly US
1891 — BARREL a drinker; a confirmed tippler; a drunkard → sl. (Bk.)
1891 — BEER-SLINGER a regular beer drinker (Bk.)
1891 — BEER-VAT a drinker, a tippler (Bk.)
1891 — BELCHER a person drinking to such excess that he vomits (Bk.)
1891 — BELCH-GUTS a drinker, a sot, a drunkard → sl. (Bk.)
1892 — ANGELS TOGETHER those who habitually give way to excessive drinking → W. Indian sl. (Bk.)
1892 — DEAD-HEAD a person who stands about a bar to drink at the expense of others → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1892 — DRY-HASH a man who will not ‘shout’, i.e. pay for drinks → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1892 — JIMMY WOOD(S) a solitary drinker → Aust. & NZ sl.
1893 — GINNUMS an old woman fond of liquor, e.g. gin → sl. obs.
1894 — BAR-POLISHER a heavy drinker who frequents bars → sl., orig, Aust.
1895 — LUSHER a heavy drinker → US sl.
1896 — BARFLY a heavy drinker who frequents bars → sl., orig. & chiefly US
1896 — JERKER a drinker; a tippler → sl. (Bk.)
1896 — TANK a person who has a great capacity for beer or other drink → sl.
1898 — A GOOD MAN ROUND A BARREL a man fond of drink → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — ABKAR a maker or retailer of spirituous drinks in India → (Bk.)
1898 — AFTERNOON MAN ‘one who has to take his glass before he can set his wits to work’ → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — ALE-SWAB an ale-drinker, a sot → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — ALE-SWATTLER an ale-drinker, a sot → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BELDER-KITE a person who has drunk too much → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BELLIKIN an immoderate drinker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BLABBER a drinker; a tippler → Sc. (Bk.)
1898 — BLASHER a great drinker → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — BLASH-KITE a lover of liquids, a ‘tosspot’ → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — JIMMY WOODSER a solitary drinker → Aust. & NZ sl.
1899 — BEER-SPARRER a heavy drinker of beer → Aust. sl.
..L19 — ALECAN a heavy drinker → sl.
..L19 — BEER-TANK a drinker → sl.
..L19 — LUSH WALLOWER a heavy drinker → Aust. sl.
..L19 — OLD BEESWING a genial drinker → sl.
..L19 — SNAKE-JUICER a drinker of cheap liquor → sl.
..20C — BURNOUT a person who abuses alcohol → teen & high school sl.
..20C — SCOZZA a rowdy person who drinks a lot of alcohol → Aust. sl.
..20C — STONER a person who is habitually under the influence of alcohol → sl.
1900 — DIRTY DRINKER a person who drinks alone, and for the mere love of drinking → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 — LUSH DIP a heavy drinker who associates with drunks → US sl.
1900 — LUSH DIVER a heavy drinker who associates with drunks → US sl.
1900 — LUSH GRAFTER a heavy drinker who associates with drunks → US sl.
1900 — LUSH WORKER a heavy drinker who associates with drunks → US sl.
1901 — SCRATCHED-MAN a person whom a publican has debarred from being served at his bar → Eng. dial.
1902 — SPARRER a heavy drinker of beer → Aust. sl.
1903 — O-BE-JOYFULLER a drinker, a sot → sl. (Bk.)
1903 — POTSTER a hard drinker; a sot → sl. (Bk.)
1903 — TAVERN-MAN a drinker; a tippler (Bk.)
1903 — VAIN-GLORIOUS MAN ‘one that pisses more than he drinks’ → sl. (Bk.)
1905 — HIGH-GOER a heavy drinker; a sot → sl. (Bk.)
1905 — ROUNDER a person who goes the rounds of saloons, etc. → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1906 — SHICKER → SHIKER → SHIKKER a drinker of alcohol → Aust. & NZ sl.
1907 — BEERHOUND a heavy drinker → US sl.
1907 — STIFF a drinker of alcohol → sl.
1908 — BAR-BUMMER a heavy drinker who frequents bars; a ‘barfly’ → Aust. sl.
1908 — WHITE LINE a drinker of alcohol → US sl.
1909 — JACK ASHORE a drinker of alcohol; a ‘larky’ rather tipsy sailor → colloq.
1910 — JOHNNY WARDER a person who drinks alone → Aust. sl.
1910 — OIL a heavy drinker → sl.
1910 — WALLOPER a beer drinker → Aust. sl.
1911 — BLEBBER a drinker; a tippler → Sc. (Bk.)
1912 — HARD-HEADS old topers → Amer. dial.
1912 — TANKER a drinker of alcohol → sl.
1913 — BOOZE-FIGHTER a heavy drinker → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — SIFFER a heavy drinker → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1915 — BAT a habitual drinker; one given to carousing → US sl.
1915 — MOPSTICK a person who performs menial tasks in a bar in return for drinks → US obs.
1915 — SOUSE a drinker of alcohol → sl., orig. US
1915 — WINO a habitual excessive drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol, esp. one who is destitute → sl., orig. US
1916 — BARHOUND a heavy drinker who frequents bars → sl.
1916 — OILER a heavy drinker → Amer. sl.
1918 — RUM-HOUND a heavy drinker → sl.
1918 — WALLFLOWER a person who idles into a saloon hoping to be offered a free drink → US Army sl. obs.
1919 — BAR RAG a regular in a given bar → US sl.
1919 — GUTBUCKET a fat or greedy person; one who eats or drinks too much → chiefly Brit., derogatory
1920 — BAR COOTIE a heavy drinker who frequents bars, day in, day out → US sl.
1920 — CELLAR SMELLER a young man who is always on hand for free liquor → US sl.
1920 — NON-SKID a woman who can hold her drink → US sl.
1921 — BEER-JUGGLER a beer drinker → US sl.
1922 — NON-SKID a woman who can hold her drink → US sl.
1926 — DEHORN a hard drinker; one inclined to fight when drunk → Amer. dial.
1927 — FUNNEL a heavy drinker → US sl.
1927 — GAS HOUND a person who drinks inferior liquor; a person habitually under the influence of such liquor → US sl.
1930 — JACKMAN a person who habitually drinks methylated spirits → sl.
1930 — JACK SMITHERS a man drinking alone → Aust. sl.
1930 — JARHEAD a heavy drinker → sl.
1930 — RUM-POT a heavy drinker → Amer. sl.
1932 — BAR-HOG a heavy drinker who frequents bars → US sl.
1932 — GIN-SOAK a gin drinker → US sl.
1934 — DERAIL a habitual drinker of derail (denatured or adulterated alcohol drunk in place of liquor; broadly, cheap or bootlegged liquor) → US tramps’ sl.
1935 — TAPPER a person who cuts into casks of wine or spirits and uses a straw to drink the contents → sl.
1938 — LUSHHEAD a habitual drinker → UK sl.
1940 — GOOF a drinker → US sl.
1940 — PISS ARTIST a drinker of alcohol
1940 — RUM RAT a person very fond of his drink → sl.
1941 — ANGEL anyone who buys a drink → US Army & Navy sl.
1941 — SWIGGER a habitual drinker, esp. of alcoholic liquor → colloq.
1942 — ELBOW BENDER a habitual drinker → US sl.
1942 — ONE-BREW a temperate drinker → US sl. (Bk.)
1944 — LIQUOR-HEAD a heavy drinker; a drunkard → Amer. dial.
1944 — LUSHIE → LUSHY a drinker of alcohol → US sl.
1945 — DOPE HEAD a person fond of Coca-Cola → World War II Amer. sl.
1945 — HARBORLIGHT \a person who takes care of a friend who has been drinking → World War II Amer. sl.
1945 — LAPPER a hard drinker → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1945 — MEALER a partial abstainer who drinks liquor only during meals → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1945 — TOTE a hard drinker → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1945 — WALKING WHISKY VAT a heavy drinker → US Western usage (Bk.)
1945 — WOLFER a hard drinker → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1946 — PISSHEAD a heavy drinker → NZ & UK sl.
1946 — VERA (LYNN) a gin drinker → rhyming sl.
1949 — PASS-OUT a person who has become unconscious by drinking → Amer. sl.
1950 — CAPTAIN CASH the member of a group who, recently or temporarily well-off, is expected to buy drinks for the rest → Aust. sl.
1950 — MOPPER a person who tends to wheedle drinks from friends → Trinidad and Tobago sl.
1950 — WATERMAN a heavy drinker → W. Indies sl.
1953 — BINDER a person who orders a drink in a public house after ‘last orders’ → sl.
1955 — JUICEHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1958 — BAR TOAD a man who goes into a saloon and squats there like a toad on a rock → Amer. loggers’ usage
1958 — DEHORNER a hard drinker; one inclined to fight when drunk → Amer. dial.
1960 — HACK a customer in a pub → NZ sl.
1960 — LUSHWELL a heavy drinker → Amer. sl.
1960 — MIDDY SCREAMER a person who cannot hold their liquor without becoming obstreperously drunk → Aust. sl.
1965 — HOOCHHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — JICKHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — RUMHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — SIX O’CLOCK SWILLER a person who took part in heavy public-bar drinking between 5 p.m. and 6.15 p.m. → NZ sl.
1965 — SLOPHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — SOPHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — SOTHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — SOT-POT a habitual drinker; a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — SOUSE-POT a habitual drinker; a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — TONICHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — WHISKYHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1965 — WINEHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1966 — DICK SMITHER a person who drinks alone → Amer. dial.
1966 — JUG-TOTER a steady drinker → Amer. dial.
1966 — TAVERN BELLY a habitual drinker; a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1967 — GARGLER a drinker → sl.
1967 — HEATHEAD a consumer of crude alcohol → US sl.
1968 — POT ALLY a drinking companion (Bk.)
1968 — POT MATE a drinking companion (Bk.)
1968 — POT WIT a person whose wit appears with drinking (Bk.)
1970 — LIGHT-ALE BANDIT a person who scrounges drinks in a public house → UK criminals’ sl.
1970 — OILER a heavy drinker → sl.
1972 — BEER-BELLY a person who has a protruding stomach or paunch caused by drinking large quantities of beer → sl.
1972 — HEAVYWEIGHT a heavy drinker → US students’ sl.
1974 — BAR-HOPPER a person who goes bar-hopping, esp. habitually → chiefly US
1975 — BILLIARD DRINKER a person who drinks whisky quickly and to excess → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1975 — HEAT ARTIST a person skilled in refining solidified alcohol (such as Sterno) and drinking it without suffering from poisoning (Bk.)
1977 — BARF BUDDY a drinking companion → US sl.
1977 — BELTER a heavy drinker → US sl.
1979 — LOADIE a heavy drinker → US students’ sl.
1980 — BAR-PROP a heavy drinker who frequents bars → US sl.
1980 — BARSTOOL JOCKEY a heavy drinker who frequents bars → US sl.
1980 — BEER JERK a drinker, orig. a drunkard → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1980 — TOXIC WASTE DUMP a person who uses drinks to excess → US students’ sl.
1981 — MUTILE an incapacitated, immobile person, usually from drink or drugs → US students’ sl.
1983 — HEAVY HITTER a heavy drinker, but not an alcoholic → US sl.
1983 — LUSH PUPPY a young person who drinks to excess → UK sl.
1986 — BOOZEHEAD a heavy drinker → Amer. dial.
1988 — YEASTER a beer drinker → (Bk.)
1991 — GUPPY a heavy drinker → US sl.
1991 — GUT-BUCKET a person who drinks too much → colloq., derogatory
1995 — HANGMAN a hard drinker → NZ sl. (Bk.)
1995 — HELLBENDER a heavy drinker → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1996 — KEG-ON-LEGS a prodigious drinker of beer → Aust. sl.
1999 — FOX a member of a drinking party who leaves the hotel without paying for his round → Aust. sl., derogatory
2000 — GIN MILL COWBOYS bar regulars, bottle babies → hipster sl. (Bk.)
2002 — ALETANK a heavy drinker → UK sl.
2006 — HELLBENDER a heavy drinker; a drunkard → US sl. (Bk.)
2006 — HORNER a heavy drinker; a drunkard → US sl. (Bk.)
2006 — JAGSTER a person on a drinking spree; a heavy drinker → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON – OTHER
..19C — LUSH TROTTER a boy or girl who is sent to the saloon to bring back beer either for their parents or for working men who cannot leave their jobs → sl., orig. US
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