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Definition of Skinkers
1. skinker [n] - See also: skinker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinkers
Literary usage of Skinkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"... is the authority for the reading: “ Hang up all the poor hep drinkers, Cries
old Sim, the King of skinkers.” In the folio edition of Ben Jonson's Works, ..."
2. The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten (1866)
"Ben Jonson called him the king of skinkers-t Among the verses on the door of the
Apollo room occurred the lines— " Hang up all the poor hop drinkers, ..."
3. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1895)
"skinkers ; He who the half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses,
... Sim, the King of skinkers, was Simon Wadlow, the host in these days. ..."
4. London and Its Celebrities: A Second Series of Literary and Historical by John Heneage Jesse (1850)
"Hang up all the poor hop drinkers, Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers ; He the
half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses. ..."
5. Memoirs of the City of London and Its Celebrities by John Heneage Jesse (1902)
"Hang up all the poor hop drinkers, Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers; He the
half of life abuses, That sits watering with the Muses. ..."
6. Illustrations of the Site and Neighbourhood of the New Post Office by William Herbert (1830)
"Hang up all the poor hoj> drinkers, Cries old Sym. the king of skinkers." It is
said in one of Bon-s trips to the Devil tavern, he observed a country lad ..."
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