tappit hen
See also: tappit-hen
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed and modified from Scots tappit-hen.
Noun edit
tappit hen (plural tappit hens)
- (rare) A bottle of wine in the port wine trade containing 2.25 liters of fluid, three times the volume of a standard bottle.
- (Scotland) A hen with a tuft of feathers on her head.
- a. 1740, unknown author, Andro and his Cutty Gun:
- Blyth , blyth , blyth was she,
Blyth was she but and ben;
And well the loo'd a Hawick gill,
And leugh to see a tappit hen
Synonyms edit
- (bottle): Marie Jeanne
- (bottle): tregnum