lick-wimble

English

Etymology

lick +‎ wimble (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Which sense of wimble? None obviously fits.”)

Noun

lick-wimble (plural lick-wimbles)

1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
   • c. 1638, Richard Brathwait, “Laws of Drinking”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Barnabae Itinerarium: Or Barnabee's Journal‎^[1], volume 1, published 1820, page 208:

     […] I bind me, my heires, Ale-squires, pot-companions, Lick-wimbles, Maltwormes, Vine-fretters, and other faithfull Drunkards firmely by these presents: […]

   • c. 1642, A health to all vintners, beer-brewers and ale-tonners, tapsters, bezlors, carrowsers, and wine-bibbers, bench-whistlers, lick-wimbles, down-right drunkards, pety drunkards; Bacchus boyes, roaring-boyes, Bachanalians, taverne antients, captaine swaggeters, foxcatchers, pot and halfe-pot men, quart, pint halfe pint men, short winded glasse-men, and in generall, to all and every privie drunkard, halfe-pot companion, indenturians, &c. And to all other good fellowes of this our fraternitie, whom these presents may concerne, greeting.‎^[2]:

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunkard