▪ I. tippling, vbl. n.1
(ˈtɪplɪŋ)
[In form and sense, the ordinary vbl. n. in -ing1 from tipple v.1; as to date, etc., see the latter.]
The action of tipple v.1
† 1. The retailing of ale or other strong drink; the business of a ‘tippler’ (tippler1 1). Obs.
| 1531 in W. H. Turner Select Rec. Oxford (1880) 106 Persons that occupye any typpellyng or coblers crafte. 1579 Ibid. 400 To be discharged from keepinge of any tipplinge. 1550–1 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisd. Norwich (1892) 87 Amercyd for typplyng of ale and bere with unlawfull metts & measures. 1594 in J. Morris Troub. Cath. Forefathers (1877) 280 Also Dorothy Browne, widow who..was heretofore discharged in open sessions from brewing and tippling. |
2. The drinking of intoxicating drink, esp. in small quantities and often; habitual indulgence in liquor (to some degree of excess, but usually not amounting to positive drunkenness).
| 1567 Let. in A. Jenkinson's Voy. & Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 214 If this typling be not left we will sende no more wyne. 1665 Needham Med. Medicinæ 406 Perpetual Tiplings and large drinking Bouts. 1771 Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 152 Preventing tippling on the Lord's day, spending the time in alehouses. 1868 Regul. & Ord. Army ¶942 No tippling or gambling is to be allowed in any of the barrack rooms. |
3. attrib. and Comb. (See also tippling-house.)
Tippling Act, Act 24 Geo. II, c. 40.
| 1579–80 North Plutarch (1595) 135 But in the ende..this bribing wretch was forced for to hold a typling booth, most like a clowne or snuch. 1616 Sylvester Tobacco Battered 215 'Tis vented most in Taverns, Tippling-cots, To Ruffians, Roarers, Tipsie-Tostie-pots. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. (1628) 55 We liue wholly by Tippling-Innes and Ale-Houses. 1755 W. Duncan Cicero's Sel. Orat. xvi. (1816) 623 Under his roofs are..tippling-shops instead of dining rooms. 1784 Cowper Task vi. 695 The rabble all alive From tipling-benches..Swarm in the streets. |
▪ II. ˈtippling, vbl. n.2 dial.
[f. tipple v.2 + -ing1.]
The binding of hay in tipples.
| 1770–4 A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1803) III. 194 The expense of tipling did not exceed five shillings a statute acre. 1812 Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. I. 401 Tippling..he considers..to be not only a cheap, but a superior mode of making hay. |
▪ III. ˈtippling, ppl. a.
[f. tipple v.1 + -ing2.]
That tipples.
† 1. That carries on the business of a ‘tippler’ (tippler1 1); that sells liquor by retail. Obs.
| ? a 1500 Chester Pl., Harrow. Hell (Shaks. Soc.) II. 82 With all tiplinge tapsters that are cuninge, Mysspendinge moche maulte, brewinge so theyne. 1552 Huloet, Typplyng wyfe, stabularia mulier. |
2. That habitually indulges (to some excess) in strong drink; given to drinking.
| 1567 Harman Caveat 59 One of these tipling Tinckers..robbed by the high way iiij Pallyards. 1693 J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. 210 Bacchus..the poets tippling deity. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xlviii, That tippling body, the Captain. 1872 J. Timbs Clubs & Club Life i. 146 A merry company of tippling citizens and jocular change-brokers. |