ˌcherry-ˈbounce
Also 7– -bouncer.
1. Colloq. for cherry-brandy.
[Said by Latham to be a term coined in order to sell the spirit without paying duty; but he gives no authority.]
| 1693 W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 369 Any mingled drink; as punch, cherrybouncer, etc. 1798 Anti-Jacobin Rev., Rovers ii. ii, This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau, My drink for ever be. 1808 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 368 A glass of cherry-bounce, or raspberry-brandy. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xiv. (1855) 128 A glass of cherry-bounce was insisted upon. |
2. Brandy and sugar.
| 1740 Poor Robin (N.) Brandy..if you chuse to drink it raw, Mix sugar which it down will draw; When men together these do flounce, They call the liquor cherry-bounce. |