1851. H. Mayhew, Lon. Lab. and Lon. Poor, i. 25. 'Cruickshank's 'Bottle' was very much admired. I heard one man say it was very prime, and showed what lush did; but I saw the same man,' added my informant, 'drunk three hours afterwards.'
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, 201. Stand me a lush and go back again.
2. (common).—A drinking bout.
1891. Licensed Victuallers' Gaz., 16 Jan. To have a supper and a good lush.
3. (Eton College).—A dainty.
Verb. (common).—1. To drink; and (2) to stand treat.
English synonyms. To barley-bree; to beer; to bend; to blink; to boose; to bub; to budge; to cover; to crack (or crush) a bottle (a quart, or cup); to crook; to crook (lift, or tip) the elbow (or little finger); to damp; to damp one's mug; to dip; to dip one's beak (or nose); to disguise oneself; to do a dram (or wet); to drown the shamrock; to flicker; to flush; to fuddle; to gargle; to give a bottle a black eye; to guttle; to guzzle; to go and see a man (or—of women—one's pa); to grog; to have, or get, or take an ante-lunch, a little anti-abstinence, an appetiser, a ball, a bead, a bit of tape, a bosom friend, a bucket, a bumper, a big reposer, a chit-chat, a cheerer, a cinder, a cobbler, a corker, a cooler, some corn-juice, a damp, something damp, a damper, a dannie, a drain, a dram, a doch-an-dorroch, a digester, an eye-opener, an entr'acte, a fancy smile, a flash, a flip, a forenoon, a go, a hair of the dog that bit one, a heeltap, an invigorator,
Johnny, a jorum, a leaf of
the old author, a morning rouser, a modicum, a nip, or nipperkin, a night cap, a nut, one's medicine, a pistol shot, a pony, a pill, a quantum, a quencher, a refresher, a revelation, a rouser, a reposer, a smile, a swig, a sleeve-button, a something, a slight sensation, a shant, a shout, a sparkler, a settler, a shift, a stimulant, a sneaker, a snifter, a soother, a thimbleful, a tift, a taste, a toothful, a Timothy, a warmer, a willy-wacht; to huff; to irrigate; to knock about the bub; to lap; to lap the gutter; to liquor; to liquor up; to load in; to look thro' a glass; to lower; to lug; to make fun; to malt; to moisten (or soak) the chaffer (clay, or lips); to mop; to mop-up; to mug; to peg; to potate; to prime oneself; to pull; to put (or drive) another nail in one's coffin; to read the maker's name; to revive; to rince; to rock; to save a life; to scamander; to shed a tear; to shake a cloth; to sherry-fog; to shift; to shout; to slosh; to sluice (or wet) the bolt, gob, or ivories; to soak; to splice the mainbrace; to squiff; to stab; to suck the monkey; to swill; to swig; to swipe; to swizzle; to take the pin out; to take a drop in the eye; to take in some O-be-joyful; to tiff; to tipple; to toddy; to wet; to wet one's whistle; to wine.
French synonyms. Absorber (familiar); s'affûter le sifflet (common); arroser ses galons (= to pay one's footing); asphyxier (= to nip); bidonner (= to swig: bidonner à la cambuse = to splice the mainbrace); bocker (popular); boire une chifferlinde (= to take a nip); se rincer le bocal (= to sluice one's
