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Meaning of cupster | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A cupper (one who performs the medical operation of cupping).
  2. A drunkard.

Examples

“To prevent other sources of infection, originating from the practizing of this office the Leyden magistrate ordered in the year 1519, that no plague-masters, barbers, cupsters or scrubsters should throw in.”
“And yonder, that old cupster, Silenus, that horrible old favourite, wobbles along on a donkey, and would tumble off, you may be sure, were he not upheld by two fairly sober Satyrs.”

CEFR level

B1
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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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