Meaning of dimidium dimidiumque | Babel Free

Definitions

half and half (mixture of ale and porter, or similar)

UK, humorous, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Examples

“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 […]”

“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, […]”

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