in cheer-upping cup, var. of CHIRRUPING-cup, taken as from cheer-up.

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17[?].  Greenland Voy., x. (N.).

        Come turn up the Boats, let’s put on our Coats,
And to Ben’s, there’s a cheerupping cup.

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1733.  Cheyne, Eng. Malady, III. iv. (1735), 328. They … retired to comfort themselves with a cheer-upping Cup.

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1766.  in Dodsley, Collect. Poems, VI. 280. Colin’s good dame … Had taken too freely the cheeruping cup.

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1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl., 3 Sept. When the Lowlanders want to drink a cheerupping cup, they go to the public house, called the change-house, and call for a choppin of twopenny.

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