old toast

noun

A lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.

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Meanings

nounold toast (plural old toasts)

plural old toasts

  1. obsoleteslangA lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
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    How often muſt I be put to the Bluſh too, when every old Toaſt ſhall be calling me Old Acquaintance, and telling me, Oh Sir, 'tis many a fair Day ſince you and I knew one Another firſt. I think 'twas in the four and thirtieth of the Queen, that we were School-fellows. How the World's alter'd ſince! &c.

    1667, Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in R[oger] L[’Estrange], transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman […], →OCLC, page 306
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