Meaning of suck-pint | Babel Free

Definitions

A drunkard.

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“Humeux: m. A ſucke-pinte or ſwill-pot; a notable drunkard.”

“As he was back in London 'in the first months of 1736,' running 'the little French theatre in the Haymarket,' and 'the Great Mogul's Company of Comedians' […], and producing Pasquin, Murphy's 'three years' of 'entertainments, hounds, and horses' gets so hard a knock that, if we had not all been brought up (as it were) in the strong persuasion that Fielding was a squandering suck-pint, it would, I believe, have been held long since a common lie.”

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