quaff
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
quaff (quaffs, present participle quaffing; past and past participle quaffed)
- To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. [from mid-16th c.]
- 1594, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew i 2
- Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V
- They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
- Quaff immortality and joy […]
- 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
- Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!
- 1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
- Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.
- 1594, Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew i 2
- German: runterkippen
- Portuguese: tragar
- Russian: загла́тывать
quaff (plural quaffs)
- The act of quaffing; a deep draught. [from late 16th c.]
- chug
- gulp
- swig
- See also Thesaurus:drink
- Misspelling of coif
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