squeeze-grape

English

Etymology

From squeeze +‎ grape.

Noun

squeeze-grape (plural squeeze-grapes)

1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
   • 1623, Mabbe, James, transl., The Rogue: or The Life of Guzman de Alfarache, translation of Guzmán de Alfarache by Mateo Alemán, page 33:

     He was a notable squeeze-grape, a huge quaffer, his glasse should bee alway brim-full, and he would vp with it de profundis; his vsuall draught was a large pint & a halfe: and hauing drunke liberally before he came to the rack, think∣ing that would haue made him lesse sensible of his paine, he confest at the first, whatsoeuer they would haue him.

Synonyms

• reel-pot, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard