She wasn't an alcoholic, but she was definitely a tippler.
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Tippler
//ˈtɪplə//
Synonyms for "tippler" (34 found)
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Related words (17)
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Translations
11 translations across 6 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- شَارِب الخَمْر noun (habitual drinker)
- مُعَاقِر الخَمْر noun (habitual drinker)
Finnish
3 entries- juoppo noun (habitual drinker)
- kapakoitsija noun (seller of liquors)
- tissuttelija noun (habitual drinker)
Latin
1 entries- bibōnius noun (habitual drinker)
Persian
1 entries- میخوار noun (habitual drinker)
Romanian
3 entries- bețiv noun (habitual drinker)
- bețivan noun (habitual drinker)
- drojdier noun (habitual drinker)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- pòitear noun (habitual drinker)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
They went home together, Tess holding one arm of her father, and Mrs Durbeyfield the other. He had, in truth, drunk very little—not a fourth of the quantity which a systematic tippler could carry to church on a Sunday afternoon without a hitch in his eastings or genuflections; but the weakness of Sir John's constitution made mountains of his petty sins in this kind. On reaching the fresh air he was sufficiently unsteady to incline the row of three at one moment as if they were marching to London, and at another as if they were marching to Bath—which produced a comical effect, frequent enough in families on nocturnal homegoings; and, like most comical effects, not quite so comic after all.
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You're a tippler, but I know you're not an alcoholic.
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It is decrede that no tippler shall allow any unlawful games in his howse.
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