Naggin-bottle

What is Naggin-bottle?


1.

a small flask or bottle for holding liquor, like a hip-flask.

"I took elocution lessons, at five bob a time, from a genteel old thing in black velvet and musty lace ... who at intervals in our weekly half-hours together would excuse herself and turn aside demurely to steal a swig from a naggin-bottle she kept hidden in her reticule."

John Banville, Eclipse, p.35

See flask, bottle, pint, snort, canteen


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