Tipple vs Wine - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between tipple and wine

is that tipple is an area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal while wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes.

As verbs the difference between tipple and wine

is that tipple is to sell alcoholic liquor by retail while wine is to entertain with wine.

tipple

English

Noun

(en noun)

An area near the entrance of mines which is used to load and unload coal.

(rail transport) An apparatus for unloading railroad freight cars by tipping them; the place where this is done.

(slang) Any alcoholic drink.

Synonyms

* (alcoholic drink) see

Verb

(tippl)

To sell alcoholic liquor by retail.

To drink too much alcohol.

To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess.

* Macaulay

Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.

To put up (hay, etc.) in bundles in order to dry it.

Synonyms

* (to drink regularly but not in excess) bibble

Derived terms

* tippler

wine

English

(wikipedia wine)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages'', s.v. “v?num” (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 680.J.P. Mallory and D.Q. Adams, ''Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture , s.v. “wine” (London: Fritzroy Dearborn, 1997), 644.

Noun

An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of grapes.

Wine is stronger than beer.

She ordered some wine for the meal.

* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:

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An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable; for example, "dandelion wine".

(countable) A serving of wine.

I'd like three beers and two wines , please.

(uncountable) A dark purplish red colour; the colour of red wine.

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* Adam's wine * barley wine * blush wine * bottle of wine * bread and wine * dessert wine * fortified wine * ginger wine * good wine needs no bush * house wine * ice wine * jug wine * May wine * palm wine * palm wine guitar * pop wine * port-wine stain * put new wine in old bottles * red wine * * sparkling wine * spirits of wine * straw wine * table wine * white wine * wine and dine * wine bar * wine bottle * wine cellar * wine cooler * wine gallon * wine glass * wine grower * wine growing * wine list * wine palm * wine vinegar * wine waiter * * winebery * winebibber * winebibbing * winebottle * wine-coloured * wineery * wineglass * winegrower * wine-press * wineskin * winetaster * winetasting * winy * yellow wine

Verb

(win)

To entertain with wine.

* 1919 , Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat , Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159:

Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;

To drink wine.

* 1839 , Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined , and went to bed sobbing.

References

* * amethyst * beeswing * bourguignonne * brandy * butler * cantina * claret * coq au vin * eiswein * enology, oenology * enophile, oenophile * envined * gluhwein * kabinett * mosbolletjie * negus * oenomel * surahi * vinaceous * vinager * vinal * Vinalia * vina medicata * vinarious * vinasse * vin de pays * vindaloo * vine * vinegar * vineity * vinho verde * vini- * vinic * viniculture * vinifera, vinifera grape * viniferous * vinification * vinificator * vinify * vinipote * vinitor * vinitorian * vino * vino- * vinolence, vinolency * vinolent * vinologist * vinology * vinomadefied * vinometer * vin ordinaire * vinose * vinosity * vinotherapy * vinous * * vin rouge * vinsanto * vintage * vintner * vintry * vinum * vinum opii * vinyl * See also Related terms for vine * amontillado * Asti spumante * auslese * Bacchus * Barolo * Barsac * Beaujolais * Beaumes-de-Venise * Beerenauslese * bin end * Bordeaux * burgundy * cabernet sauvignon * canary * Catawba * cava * Chablis * champagne * chaptalize * chardonnay * Chianti * corkage * * cru * * demijohn * Dionysus * double magnum * Frascati * gamay * * glogg * Graves * hippocras * jeroboam * kir * krater * Lambrusco * LBV * lees * Liebfraumilch * malmsey * Marsala * merlot * Methuselah * Meursault * mirin * Moselle * Muscadet * muscatel * Orvieto * Pinot Grigio * Pinot Noir * pinotage * rehoboam * retsina * riesling * Rioja * sangaree * sangria * sauterne * Sauvignon blanc * scuppernong * * sherry * Soave * sommelier * * spritzer * * syrah * Tavel * Tokay * trockenbeerenauslese * tun * Valpolicella * vermouth * vigneron * Vouvray * zinfandel

Etymology 2

Noun

(-)

(nonstandard, British) wind

* 1850 , James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century :

Vor voices rawze upon tha wine

* 1869 , James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire :

Aw how sholl I tell o’m—vor âll pirty maidens

*:: When I pass’d ’em look’d back—ther smill rawze on tha wine .

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