[f. SUP v.1 + -ER1.]

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  a.  One who sups or sips: chiefly with prefixed sb., as † blood-supper = blood-sucker, kale-supper, wine-supper. Also (north. dial.), a habitual drinker. b. The sucker of a pump.

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1534, a. 1563.  [see BLOOD-SUPPER].

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1535.  Coverdale, Joel i. 5. Wake vp ye dronckardes, & wepe: mourne all ye wyne suppers.

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1611.  Florio, Sorbitore, a sipper, a sooper, a swallower.

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1611.  Cotgr., Buvereau..., a bibber, supper, or sipper; one that drinks little, and often. Ibid., Soupape,… the Supper, or Sucker of a Pumpe.

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1816.  Scott, Antiq., iv. Aiken was ane o’ the kale-suppers o’ Fife.

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