poculation
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin poculum (“cup”) + -ation
Noun edit
poculation (uncountable)
- (rare) Drinking of wine or other intoxicating liquor.
- 1837, D.C., “Signs of the Times”, in The New Monthly Magazine, page 580:
- The art of poculation, if so it may be termed, being of the highest antiquity, and the claims of Bacchus as the inventor of the art being unquestioned.
- 1872 December 19, “Dined into Dyspepsia”, in New National Era, volume 3, number 50, page 1:
- And as for the marvellous poculation that follows the ordinary English dinner, the aristocratic Londoner appears simply as a porous member through which liquids disappear […] or rather cognac and whisky sink into his organization as gracefully as if the British stomach were the proper receptacle and destiny of the alcohols.
- 2021, Martin Lundqvist, “The Temper Complication”, in 50 Short Stories, page 123:
- "I had to win enough money to get you out." I replied, leaving out the detail about the many hours I had spent engaging in poculation and copulation with the beautiful Serena Silva.