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noun

Tippler n.

One who keeps a tippling-house. (Obs.)

One who habitually indulges in the excessive use of spirituous liquors, whether he becomes intoxicated or not.

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Etymology of 'Tippler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tippler" Quotes from Famous Books

... is impossible for me to kill you. Kindly accept my excuses. But, abbe, you don't drink. You imposed upon me. I believed you to be a real good tippler, and wished you to become my chaplain as soon as I could set up ...

— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France

... enemy; for you would not only torment my body to death, but ruin my good name; you reproach me as a glutton and a tippler; now all the world that knows me will allow that I am neither the one ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... visit my mistress this morning; would you have me smell of strong potations, and seem a worshipper of the 'Glass of Fashion,' rather than of 'the Mould of Form'? Confess, Mr. Fielding, that the women love not an early tippler, and that they expect sober and sweet kisses from a ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... landlords turn the drunken bee Out of the Foxglove's door, When butterflies renounce their drams, I shall but drink the more! Till seraphs swing their snowy caps And saints to windows run, To see the little tippler ...

— Ponkapog Papers • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... star which they tell you appeared at his nativity,' and which still shines beside him, Micat inter omnes, on a medal struck in his boyhood. {12b} Anon he is sunk in besotted vice, a cruel lover, a solitary tippler, a broken man. We study the ...

— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang

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