merry-go-down n.
(strong) beer.
![]() | The Owles alamanacke 43: The best medicine for the fleas will be a cup of merry-goe-downe, and the onely helpe to clap the doore vpon sorrow, and shut him out, will be a draught of March beere. | |
![]() | ‘In the Praise or Ex-Ale-tation of ale’ in An antidote against melancholy 1: I Mean not to tast, though thereby much grac’d, [?]or the Merry-go-down without pull or hale. | |
![]() | Topsie-turvy, hey-down-derry 4: I am acquainted at the House where Old Joan did live, and there we shall be sure to have the best Merry, go down in all the Town. |