wino en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weh₁y-? Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ōder. Proto-Italic *wīnom Latin vīnumbor. Proto-Germanic *wīną Proto-West Germanic *wīn Old English wīn Middle English wyn English wine Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O ▲ Middle English o English oh English -o English wino From wine + -o (“person with characteristic”).
Meanings
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(derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard.
My grandmother was a Puerto Rican wino from Spanish Harlem named Migdalia, but everybody called her Mimi. My moms and Aunt Dru were her only kids. Mimi was a tall, light-skinned woman with long wavy hair and high cheekbones. She drank cheap wine and laughed all day long.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 43:
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(derogatory, especially) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; especially, a drunkard. ▸ Such a drunkard who is homeless.
I came out in an alley where a couple of winos were picking through a trash bin.
2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 782:Near-synonyms: bum, hobo; see also Thesaurus:vagabond
- (informal) A wine enthusiast.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| winos | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| winoes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
winy · vinous · vinaceous · wininess
Synonyms
truant · squeeze-grape · inebriate · tosspot · drinker · clochard · soak · skelder · borachio · skell · lush · rinse-pitcher · winesop · alkie · grog artist · slubberdegullion · fuddler · rough sleeper · lusher · pisspot · lusher · sponge · alkie · stiff · soaker · gadling · bouser · alcoholic · carouser · bacchanal · landloper · stumblebum · paker · scatterling · sot · rinse-pitcher · waif · soak · boozehound · toper · swill-tub · bibber · squeeze-grape · cupster · barfly · alco · drunk · lick-wimble · lush · wanderer · juicehead · winebibber · bouser · ranger · wino · nomad · maltworm · borachio · souse · souse · swill-belly · swill-tub · soaker · hobo · inebriate · drunk · landleaper · reel-pot · vagabond · landlouper · alcoholic · tosspot · suck-pint · pisshead · boozer · swagman · dipsomaniac · drifter · swillking · derelict · wino · alcoholic · barfly · sot · tippler · alcoholic · fuddlecap · rogue · pisshead · booze artist · floater · swill-flagon · drunkard · bibber · swill-bowl · pisspot · dipso · juicehead · swill-pot · stroller · swaggie · swill-pot · sponge · rolling stone · grog artist · drinker · drunk · drunk · bacchanal · swillking · toper · plonko · piker · plonko · rumpot · tippler · fuddlecap · sucker · cupster · oenophile · bum · tun · slubberdegullion · boozer · Jack out of doors · palliard · knight of the road · yagger · maltworm · tun · shicker · swill-belly · toerag · guzzler · guzzler · fuddler · lick-wimble · dipso · swill-flagon · bum · vagrant · winesop · dero · reel-pot · swill-bowl · sucker · bacchant · tramp · bacchant · boozehound · alco · pike · down-and-out · down-and-outer · drunkard · carouser · epithite · suck-pint · shicker · hobo · casual · winebibber · rumpot · booze artist · dipsomaniac
Translations (26)
it ubriacone (alcoholic (pejorative)) · fr clodo (homeless alcoholic) · es borracho (alcoholic (pejorative)) · it beone (alcoholic (pejorative)) · fr sac à vin (alcoholic (pejorative)) · it ubriaco (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Weinsäuferin (alcoholic (pejorative)) · es catavinos (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Saufbruder (alcoholic (pejorative)) · es borrachín (alcoholic (pejorative)) · it alcolizzato (alcoholic (pejorative)) · ro bețiv (alcoholic (pejorative)) · cs ožrala (alcoholic (pejorative)) · fr clochard (homeless alcoholic) · de Alki (alcoholic (pejorative)) · es guaino (alcoholic (pejorative)) · it spugna (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Spriti (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Wermutpenner (alcoholic (pejorative)) · es briago (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Weinsäufer (alcoholic (pejorative)) · ro bețivan (alcoholic (pejorative)) · fr alcoolo (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Wermutpennerin (alcoholic (pejorative)) · ro drojdier (alcoholic (pejorative)) · de Saufschwester (alcoholic (pejorative))