Definition of "simkin" [simkin]

• The common Anglo-Indian word for champagne. Also spelled simpkin. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She kept the bridecake, and enclosed to the gallant captain Gosslett's bill for the dozen of simkin that excellent firm had sent in to wash it down wherewithal."
• "The mild Hindoo imbibes it quietly, but approvingly, as he watches the evolutions of the Nautch girls, and his partiality for it has already enriched the Anglo-Bengalee vocabulary and London slang with the word “simkin.”"
• "Demijohns of French loll-shrub and carboys of iced simkin."