quaff

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Not a bad little red in terms of a casual quaff -- I had a glass here and there with leftovers for a couple of days.

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  1. transitive verb To drink (a beverage) heartily: quaffed the ale with gusto.
  2. intransitive verb To drink a liquid heartily: quaffed from the spring.
  3. noun A hearty draft of liquid.

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  • Simple and easy to quaff, enjoy now for the plum, tea and cherry cola highlights; —  The New Wine Consumer: Wine Brands
  • Just the paid provider of certain species of mental refreshment,--a sort of fashionable drink that the hurrying public, coming along and seeing others drinking, took a gulp at and went on with its much more important work nor better nor worse for the quaff. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • From A Diary of the Salisbury Parliament_, by Mr. H. LUCY, anyone can quaff or sip, just as his thirst for Parliamentary knowledge may be feverish or moderate, but healthy. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 17, 1892
  • --'And I'll vow,' said another rustic, 'the wine they quaff is none of your visionary drink, such as a drouthie body has dished out to his lips in a dream; nor is it shadowy and unsubstantial, like the vessels they sail in, which are made out of a cockleshell or a cast-off slipper, or the paring of a seaman's right thumb-nail. —  Stories of Mystery
  • Pyrrhic phalanx, a phalanx such as was used by Pyrrhus, king of Epirus quaff (kwaf), drink Queen of Lebanon (Leba-nen), Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of William Pitt. —  Elson Grammar School Literature v4
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Prob. a reduced form, with change of orig. guttural gh to f (ff) (as in dwarf, trough, pron. as if troff, etc.), of quaught, drink, quaff: see quaught. There may have been some confusion with the Scots quaigh, quegh, quech, also queff, a cup, from Gaelic Irish cuach, a cup, bowl: see quaigh.
  2. from quaff, v.
 

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