- spiritmerchant
spirit-merchant
1> виноторговец, торговец спиртными напитками
Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
whistled — ?obsolete drunk A whistle in slang is a mouth, which we still wet2. A whistle shop was an unlicensed inn, operated by a whistler: The whistler, otherwise the spiritmerchant. (Moncrieff, 1821) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms