"suck-pint" meaning in English

See suck-pint in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: suck-pints [plural]
Etymology: suck + pint Etymology templates: {{compound|en|suck|pint}} suck + pint Head templates: {{en-noun}} suck-pint (plural suck-pints)
  1. (dated) A drunkard. Tags: dated Categories (topical): Alcoholism, People Synonyms: sucker, tosspot, drunkard Related terms: suck-bottle, suck-can, suck-pot, suck-spigot

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for suck-pint meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suck",
        "3": "pint"
      },
      "expansion": "suck + pint",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "suck + pint",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "suck-pints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "suck-pint (plural suck-pints)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
          "parents": [
            "Exocentric verb-noun compounds",
            "Verb-noun compounds",
            "Exocentric compounds",
            "Verb-object compounds",
            "Compound terms",
            "Terms by etymology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Alcoholism",
          "orig": "en:Alcoholism",
          "parents": [
            "Drinking",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM",
          "text": "Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drunkard."
      ],
      "id": "en-suck-pint-en-noun-tiJ~Kf0z",
      "links": [
        [
          "drunkard",
          "drunkard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A drunkard."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "suck-bottle"
        },
        {
          "word": "suck-can"
        },
        {
          "word": "suck-pot"
        },
        {
          "word": "suck-spigot"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sucker"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosspot"
        },
        {
          "word": "drunkard"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "suck-pint"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "suck",
        "3": "pint"
      },
      "expansion": "suck + pint",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "suck + pint",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "suck-pints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "suck-pint (plural suck-pints)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "suck-bottle"
    },
    {
      "word": "suck-can"
    },
    {
      "word": "suck-pot"
    },
    {
      "word": "suck-spigot"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Alcoholism",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page HVI-HVM",
          "text": "Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903, William Ernest Henley, Henry Fielding; republished in Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1921, page 33",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A drunkard."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drunkard",
          "drunkard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A drunkard."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sucker"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosspot"
    },
    {
      "word": "drunkard"
    }
  ],
  "word": "suck-pint"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.