cheer-upping, chear-
in cheer-upping cup, var. of chirruping-cup, taken as from cheer-up.
| 17.. Greenland Voy. (N.), Come turn up the boats, let's put on our coats, And to Ben's, there's a cheerupping cup. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady iii. iv. (1734) 328 They..retired to comfort themselves with a cheer-upping Cup. 1766 in Dodsley Collect. Poems VI. 280 Colin's good dame..Had taken too freely the cheeruping cup. 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Sept., When the Lowlanders want to drink a cheerupping cup, they go to the public house, called the change-house, and call for a choppin of twopenny. |