Great Expectations vocabulary

We had a hot supper on the occasion, graced by the inevitable roast fowl, and we had some flip to finish with.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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he certainly ought to eat even were it only an eggflip made on unadulterated maternal nutriment

James Joyce. Ulysses

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Flip? Did I say we had flip? Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands— visitors and all— were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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‘On such an occasion I will give you, Master Copperfield,’ said Mrs. Micawber, ‘in a little more flip,’ for we had been having some already, ‘the memory of my papa and mama.’

Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)