swillbellyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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swill-belly (plural swill-bellies)

1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
   • 1599, Thomas Dekker, The Shoemaker's Holiday, act 4, scene 5; Rhys, Ernest, editor, Thomas Dekker‎, unexpurgated edition, London: Vizetelly & Co, 1887, page 63:

     I'll not account of her as of my child. / Was there no better object for her eyes / But a foul drunken lubber, swill-belly, / A shoemaker? That's brave!

同意語

• reel-pot, squeeze-grape; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

関連する語

• swill-bowl, swill-box, swill-can, swill-flagon, swill-pail, swill-pot, swill-tub