[f. TIPPLE v.1 + -ING2.] That tipples.

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  † 1.  That carries on the business of a ‘tippler’ (TIPPLER1 1); that sells liquor by retail. Obs.

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a. 1500[?].  Chester Pl., Harrow. Hell (Shaks. Soc.), II. 82. With all tiplinge tapsters that are cuninge, Mysspendinge moche maulte, brewinge so theyne.

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1552.  Huloet, Typplyng wyfe, stabularia mulier.

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  2.  That habitually indulges (to some excess) in strong drink; given to drinking.

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1567.  Harman, Caveat, 59. One of these tipling Tinckers … robbed by the high way iiij Pallyards.

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1693.  J. Edwards, Author. O. & N. Test., 210. Bacchus … the poets tippling deity.

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1818.  Scott, Hrt. Midl., xlviii. That tippling body, the Captain.

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1872.  J. Timbs, Clubs & Club Life, I. 146. A merry company of tippling citizens and jocular change-brokers.

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