A small wine and beer measure. Now called a “nip.”
“His hawk-economy wonʹt thank him forʹt
Which stops his petty nipperkin of port.”
Peter Pindar: Hair Powder.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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