英语词汇“drunkard”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

drunkard

释义

drunkard|ˈdrʌŋkərd|
Also 6 droncarde, -kerd(e, dronckharde.
[f. drunk ppl. a. + -ard.]
1. One addicted to drinking; one who habitually drinks to excess; an inebriate, a sot.
1530Palsgr. 155 Yuroygne, a man droncarde; yuresse, a woman droncarde.1535Coverdale Ps. lxviii[i]. 12 The dronckhardes made songes vpon me.c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cvii. x, As drunckards..they staggring reele.1712Steele Spect. No. 276 ⁋1 A man that is now and then guilty of Intemperance is not to be called a Drunkard.1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 35 A drunkard in charge of drunkards would be singularly fortunate if he avoided doing a serious mischief.
2. A local name of the Marsh Marigold.
1886in Britten & Holland Plant-n. App.1894Baring-Gould Kitty Alone I. 118 The large golden cups that grow by the water's edge—these we call drunkards, but they drink only water.
3. Comb., as drunkard-curer, drunkard-curing; also drunkard's cloak, a tub or barrel with holes for the head and hands fitted on a drunkard like a jacket, as a punishment.
1789Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 192 note, In the time of the commonwealth, it appears that the magistrates..punished..drunkards by making them carry a tub, called the drunkard's cloak, through the streets.1892Daily News 22 June 5/5 There are several rival drunkard curers in the field.1892Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 18 Nov. 7/4 The new drunkard-curing institution.
Hence † ˈdrunkardize v. intr., to act like a drunkard.
1632Vicars æneid (N.) Her deaded heart incens'd, she raves aloud, Doth madly through the citie drunkardize.

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