tippler

English

Etymology

tipple +‎ -er (“(agent)”). “Seller” sense from 1396; “drinker” sense from 1580.

Noun

tippler (plural tipplers)

1. (archaic, Webster 1913) A seller of alcoholic liquors; keeper of a tippling-house.
2. A habitual drinker; a bibber.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:

     […] they had picked up two fellows in that day’s march, one of which, he said, was as fine a man as ever he saw (meaning the tippler),

3. A breed of domestic pigeon bred to participate in endurance competitions.
4. (UK, railroad) An open wagon with a tipping trough, unloaded by being inverted (used for bulk cargo, especially minerals). A mine car, a lorry.
5. (mining) One who works at a tipple.

Synonyms

• (drinker): bibber; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

Translations

seller of liquors

• Finnish: kapakoitsija (fi)
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habitual drinker

• Finnish: juoppo (fi) (heavy drinker), tissuttelija (not so heavy, but regular)
• Latin: bibōnius m
• Persian: می‌خوار (mey-xâr)
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• Scottish Gaelic: pòitear m

breed of pigeon

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Anagrams

• Lippert, ripplet