Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of mixed drink. See the extracts.
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Examples
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The sergeant asked for pepper and salt; minced the food fine and made it savoury, and kept administering it by teaspoonfuls; urging Philip to drink from time to time from his own cup of dog's-nose.
Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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The sergeant asked for pepper and salt; minced the food fine and made it savoury, and kept administering it by teaspoonfuls; urging Philip to drink from time to time from his own cup of dog's-nose.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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"friendly leads," and ratting contests in Rotherhithe slums, become expensive, when you happen to be the only gentleman present possessed of a collar, and are expected to do the honours of your class in dog's-nose.
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Come, give us another glass of your dog's-nose, and no more of your sermon, which isn't edifying. "
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
Gammerstang commented on the word dog's-nose
(noun) - (1) A cordial composed of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg; mentioned in Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers.
--James Halliwell's Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
(2) A name given to a liquor compounded of beer and gin, or of ale and rum.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
January 14, 2018