winesop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A piece of bread soaked in wine

   A piece of bread soaked in wine; a small cake made with grapes or wine.

   • Hence the proverb […] "to reduce one whose meal is a winesop to a dry crust."
   • Beatriz, for all her seeming frailty, had borne the long strain better, and presently came, offering winesops, the recognised restorative; small pieces of fine white bread soaked in wine.
   • His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.
2. 2

   A drunkard, a wino.

   • "I'm going to give you Mr. Whish — or the winesop that remains of him," continued Attwater.
   • […] "we're being maneuvered into providing a gala State funeral for that reprobate winesop."
   • "Aye, he was good at skulking around and acting like a winesop or an idiot."

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