drinking-cup

English

Alternative forms

• drinking cup

Etymology

From drinking +‎ cup. Compare Old English drenccuppe (“drinking-cup”).

Noun

drinking-cup (plural drinking-cups)

1. A cup for drinking
   • 2015, A.J. Cronin, The Stars Look Down:

     He took the drinking cup—funny, like a little teapot!—and held it to her white lips. She raised her hand weakly and took the drinking-cup. Then a faint shiver went through her body. The liquid in the drinking-cup spilled all over her nightgown.

   • 2015, John Kendrick Bangs, The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection:

     "He smiled pleasantly as I said this, and then drew out of his coattail pocket a small tin box, which, until he opened it, I supposed contained a drinking-cup—one of those folding tin cups. […] "

   • 2015, Ward Rutherford, Celtic Mythology:

     Battered, exhausted, more dead than alive, she falls through the smoke hole of the house of the Ulster chieftain Etar and into a drinking-cup.

   • 2016, Edward Breck, The Way Of The Woods:

     A good drinking-cup is fashioned of a parallelogram of birchbark twisted into pyramid form and fastened with a split stick.

   • 2016, James E. Harding, The Love of David and Jonathan:

     If the match is deemed appropriate, the lover hands over customary gifts, which include dress for battle , an ox for sacrifice, a drinking-cup, and other unspecified expensive gifts.