Also 7 -bouncer.
1. Colloq. for CHERRY-BRANDY.
[Said by Latham to be a term coined in order to sell the spirit without paying duty; but he gives no authority.]
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 369/2. Any mingled drink; as punch, cherrybouncer, &c.
1798. Anti-Jacobin Rev., Rovers, II. ii. This cherry-bounce, this loved noyau, My drink for ever be.
1808. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 368. A glass of cherry-bounce, or raspberry-brandy.
1844. W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl., xiv. (1853), 128. A glass of cherry-bounce was insisted upon.
2. Brandy and sugar.
1740. Poor Robin (N.). Brandy … if you chuse to drink it raw, Mix sugar which it down will draw; When men together these do flounce, They call the liquor cherry-bounce.
