tipple and ermine

Nora, who likes a tipple at her local pub The Ermine Way -- where the photo-shoot took place -- said she was slightly nervous when stripping off for the camera, albeit draped in a tasteful pink scarf.

喜歡在家鄉酒吧「厄明巷」喝上幾杯的諾拉說，在鏡頭前衣衫盡褪時，她有點緊張；儘管披有一條雅致的粉紅圍巾。拍照場景就在該酒吧。

tipple Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
an alcoholic drink:
What's your tipple (= What alcoholic drink do you usually drink)?

tippler Show phonetics
noun [C] INFORMAL
someone who often drinks alcohol


tr. & intr.v., -pled, -pling, -ples.

To drink (alcoholic liquor) or engage in such drinking, especially habitually or to excess.

n.

Alcoholic liquor.

[Perhaps back-formation from Middle English tipeler, bartender.]

tippler tip'pler n.
tip·ple² (tĭp'əl)
n.

1. 1. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
   2. The place where this is done.
2. A place for screening coal and loading it into trucks or railroad cars.

[From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of TIP².]

tip·ple² (tĭp'əl)
n.

1. 1. An apparatus for unloading freight cars by tipping them.
   2. The place where this is done.
2. A place for screening(sorting) coal and loading (dumping) it into trucks or railroad cars.

[From dialectal tipple, to overturn, frequentative of TIP².]

ermine Hide phonetics
noun [U]
expensive white fur with black spots that is the winter fur of the stoat (= a small mammal) and is used to decorate formal clothes worn by kings, queens, judges, etc.

stoat【動】(尤指夏天變成褐色毛皮的)鼬