cupster
nounEtymology From Middle English copster, coppester, cuppestere, equivalent to cup + -ster. Compare cupper.
1
Rare A cupper (one who performs the medical operation of cupping).
- To prevent other sources of infection, originating from the practizing of this office the Leyden magistrate ordered in the year 1519, that no plague-masters, barbers, cupsters or scrubsters should throw in.1916, Janus - Volume 21:
2
Rare A drunkard.
- And yonder, that old cupster, Silenus, that horrible old favourite, wobbles along on a donkey, and would tumble off, you may be sure, were he not upheld by two fairly sober Satyrs.1909, Max Beerbohm, Yet Again: