quaff

present singular third person quaffs · participle present quaffing · participle past quaffed · past quaffed

1. To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.First known use mid-16th c.

   I can't believe you quaffed four pints of beer and could still drive!

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   Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health

   c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]

   They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy […]

   1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

   Sometimes the memory of her peaceful life at Florence obtruded itself upon her, and more than that, her charitable occupations when she attended the sick in that city, and whence, as from a rough-hewn chalice containing nectarian drink, she had quaffed happiness.

   1823, Mary Shelley, Valperga

   Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!

   1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC

   Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.

   1852, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

plural quaffs

1. The act of quaffing; a deep draught.First known use late 16th c.

   Synonyms: chug, gulp, swig

1. misspellingMisspelling of coif.

   I'm actually gonna miss @sreizis and seeing him and his perfectly groomed quaff everyday in every class.

   2013 June 19, Sarah Romanowski, “status update”, in Twitter

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   There were loverbird songs and loverbird trinkets, loverbird hats and pins, bangles and baubles, coins and quaffs and tidbits.

   1953 July, Theodore Sturgeon, “The World Well Lost”, in Universe Science Fiction, number 1, page 16; reprinted as “The World Well Lost”, in Thomas N. Scortia, editor, Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction, New York: Random House, Inc, 1972, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56

   The Miley Cyrus new hair photos reveal the former Hannah Montana star sporting a bowl cut of sorts that isn’t receiving all good news at this point. Cyrus revealed her new quaff this Tuesday with friends while relaxing outside a local Los Angeles recording studio.

   2014 January 19, Ryan Arciero, “Miley Cyrus new hair: Bowl cut a fresh style for singer, mixed reactions so far”, in Examiner.com