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Meanings of half-pint in English

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Disparaging terms for small people.

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Usage of half-pint in English
1
Mr Fogarty brought a gift with him, a half-pint of special whisky.
Dubliners
2
Pour it through a funnel into half-pint bottles, and cork them well.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
3
Then chop a half-pint of oysters, and beat six eggs very well.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
4
Chard took out the rum and filled a half-pint pannikin to the brim.
Tessa / 1901
5
More pressingly is it acceptable to have a half-pint on a pub crawl.
The Guardian
6
While he was saying this, Beckwith had filled a half-pint glass with brandy.
Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
7
I may take an odd half-pint now and then; but half-a-crown a week!
Thrift
8
He took out a half-pint of Old Grand-Dad and drank, fast.
The marrowbone marble company
9
Poison, introduced through an innocuous, half-pint plastic bottle of apple juice.
Frozen Heat
10
I made a commitment to myself to buy only a half-pint and no more.
Chump change: a novel
11
And most of them would sell their mothers for a penny or a half-pint.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
12
The coffee machine had been reprogrammed to do half-pint espressos.
The Irish Times
13
And wielding a sword this time, like some half-pint warrior.
Thief of lives
14
To make raw starch, allow four even tablespoonfuls to a half-pint of cold water.
The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking / Adapted to Domesti...
15
Four wine glasses will fill a half-pint or common tumbler, or a large coffee-cup.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
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None of your quiet half-pint inside the bar for him.
Stage-Land
Frequent collocations
Translations for half-pint
Half-pint through the time