dimidium dimidiumqueとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dimidium dimidiumque (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete, humorous) half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)
   • 1848, Albert Smith, Angus Bethune Reach, The Man in the Moon, volume 3, page 107:

     And when the young Anglo-Roma Gents went out between the acts, in order to imbibe dimidium dimidiumque, or gingiber, (doubtless the ginger-beer of the moderns,) they received at the theatre door […]

   • 1893, Charles Thomas Paske, Frederick George Aflalo, Myamma: A Retrospect of Life and Travel in Lower Burmah, page 153:

     I was still fresh, which was something; a trifle warm perhaps, and well disposed towards a pint of the dimidium dimidiumque of the ancients had such been available, but, in default of nectar, I sought another comforter, […]

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary