dog’s nose n.1
1. beer warmed nearly to boiling, mixed with gin or wormwood (the basis of absinthe), sugar and ginger; an alternative version substitutes brandy for the wormwood.
![]() | Vocab. of the Flash Lang. | |
![]() | Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 69: Dog’s nose — Or, half a pint of beer cold as a dog’s nose is, with a glass of brandy mixt, and still it will be no warmer. This is a dose for a coachman, guard, or any other out-all-night man, who would preserve his trachea and glottis from the operation of the cold air. | |
![]() | Pickwick Papers (1999) 440: ‘Dog’s nose,’ which your committee find upon enquiry, to be compounded of warm porter, moist sugar, gin, and nutmeg. | |
![]() | ‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 9 Nov. 5/1: ‘Dog’s noze’ (witch is a verrey prettey tipple). | |
![]() | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Jan. 21/2: A predeliction for dog’s nose or schnaps vulgarly called a hair of the dog that bit you. | |
![]() | (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor III 255/1: The coalporters are very partial to ‘dog’s nose’ – that is, half a pint of ale with a pennyworth of gin in it. | |
![]() | Story of a Lancashire Thief 9: There we sat, drinking just what we fancied — dog’s-nose in particular was what I liked. | |
![]() | Dead Men’s Shoes III 248: He has never been properly sober, muddling himself with gin and beer – dog’s nose, he calls it. | |
![]() | Bulletin (Sydney) 28 Feb. 6/4: I was allowed to smoke a pipe if I leaned very much up the chimney; and it was as much as my comfort was worth if I refused an occasional pull at the comforting ‘dog’s nose’ that simmered on the hob. | |
![]() | Illus. Sporting & Dramatic News 27 Sept. 7/2: The mutabilities of fashion which have acclimatised [...]‘Dog’s Nose,’ under the title of Nez-de-Chien in France. | |
![]() | Signor Lippo 24: So in we went and called for a dawg’s nose apiece. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 24: Dog’s Nose, gin and beer for a drink. | |
![]() | Dundee Courier 14 June 7/2: ‘Dog’s nose’ means gin and beer. | |
![]() | Townsville Daily Bull. (Qld) 7 July 11/6: Passing him the over-proof rum, and the whiskey an’ brandy, he makess a dog’s snout of the three. | |
![]() | (ref. to early 1900s) Streets of London 92: Tea and coffee were too expensive for them; and it was not everybody who liked the stronger breakfast of Early Purl or Dog’s Nose. | |
![]() | Gippsland Times (Vic.) 26 Aug. 5: ‘Better make mine a dog’s nose,’ tittered Shorty. |
2. an alcoholic whose preferred tipple is whisky.
![]() | Dict. of Sl., Jargon and Cant. |