cupster

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cupper (one who performs the medical operation of cupping). rare
    — To prevent other sources of infection, originating from the practizing of this office the Leyden magistrate ordered in the year 1519, that no plague-masters, barbers, cupsters or scrubsters should throw in.
  2. A drunkard. rare
    — And yonder, that old cupster, Silenus, that horrible old favourite, wobbles along on a donkey, and would tumble off, you may be sure, were he not upheld by two fairly sober Satyrs.

词形变化

cupsters plural

词汇关系

近义词
souse suck-pint

词源

From Middle English copster, coppester, cuppestere, equivalent to cup + -ster. Compare cupper.
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