bottle-ing

Updated: June 26, 2025

The exertion of successive dinner-giving above all, of bachelor dinner-giving and that too in the country, where men sit, talk, talk, talking, sip, sip, sipping, and 'just another bottle-ing'; more, we believe, from want of something else to do than from any natural inclination to exceed; the exertion, we say, of such parties had completely unstrung our fat friend, and ill-prepared his nerves for such a shock.

Robert Smith Surtees - Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour