Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Strong ale, or huff-cap.
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Examples
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If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of "huffcap" or "merry-go-down," will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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If this shift serve not (neither doth the fox use always one track for fear of a snare), they will compound with some one of the town where the market is holden, who for a pot of huffcap or merry-go-down, will not let to buy it for them, and that in his own name.
Of Fairs and Markets. Chapter IV. [1577, Book II., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 18 1909
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Affected by juxtaposed feelings of potent happiness and sadness at once; the phenomenon itself; an affected person; things having an anolagous effect (e.g., alcohol).
(Not to be confused with bittersweet, which implies a blending of less acute emotions that were often predictable)
July 11, 2008