Also wineing. [f. WINE v. + -ING1.] The drinking of wine in company. Also attrib.
1847. Mrs. Gore, Castles in Air, xiii. I. 287. Hampden’s rooms [at Cambridge], where one of our so-called wining parties was prepared.
1891. Daily News, 2 Oct., 5/1. At the wining, he finished his reply to the toast of the evening with a happy conceit.
1917. Morning Post, 16 Feb., 4/2. Lunching, dining, and wineing with English members … made them the dupes of the Liberal party.
So Wining ppl. a., wine-drinking.
1755[?]. [E. Thompson], Meretriciad (1765), 13.
| When sep’rate you enjoy’d the wining man, | |
| What could resist a well-laid bedded plan? |
