Meaning of hot with | Babel Free

Definitions

A drink of hot spirits with sugar and water.

UK, colloquial, obsolete

Examples

“In like⟳ manner did the Cold Brandy-and-Water Sheet waft me now to the “Cider-Cellar”—now to the “Coal-Hole”! I heard a thousand voices cry⟳, “ Hot with ”—“ Cold without ”—and saw⟳ a multitude of men, spinning like⟳ dervishes about me—spinning with tubs of oysters !”

“He [Mr. H. S. Edwards] had formerly been unacquainted with even the taste⟳ of gin (a laugh⟳, which was quickly suppressed by the usher of the court), but since this case had been placed in his hands, he had felt it his duty to consume⟳ several gallons of it. Part of this he had taken “hot with,” (meaning, as our reporter understood, “hot with sugar”); another portion he had enjoyed in the form⟳ of “cold without;” and the remainder in its simplest and most natural state—a state which he might be allowed to characterize as “neat but not gaudy.””

““Let⟳ me have⟳ some whisky—hot, with;—and don't stand⟳ there looking at nothing.””

“[…] we sang together […] under the exciting influence⟳ of two quart bottles of Guinness, and about three tumblers each of gin, hot with, and only one knob of sugar— […]”

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