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deoch an doris Chiefly Sc. and Irish.|dɒxənˈdɒrɪs, djɒx-|
Also deoc(h)-an-doruis, deoch-an-dorris, deoch an dorus, doch-an-dorris, etc.
[Gael. deoch an doruis, lit. ‘drink at the door’.]
A parting drink, a stirrup-cup.
1682–91J. Fraser Chron. Frasers (1905) 124 That ordinary farewell drink, a parting called Deoch i Dorrish, which, as it is said, Prior Dawson had invented. Ibid. 366 He must drink Doch in Dorris, a homely drow which the Highlanders takes [sic] with their familiars. 1810W. Hickey Memoirs (1925) IV. 343 Sir George..insisted upon our taking the Dukkin Doreege (I know not whether I spell it correctly. It means the parting glass, or glass at the door, in the Irish language). 1819Scott Br. Lamm. II. iv. 85 The Lord Keeper, the Master, and the domestics, had drunk doch-an-dorroch, or the stirrup-cup, in the liquors adapted to their various ranks. 1824― Redgauntlet I. ii. 22 This was a parting cup..and..fell under the exception of Dochan dorroch. 1839D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 283 To give Peter Farrel a dram by way of ‘doch-an-dorris’, as the Gaelic folk say. 1866‘Old Stager’ Stage Reminisc. 13 Having partaken of deoch an doruis with our worthy host, we left the house. 1892W. Ewing Poems 14 Then doch and dorus wis proposed. 1912Lauder & Harper It's Nice when you love a Wee Lassie 3 We gave them as much as they wanted to eat, An' a wee deoch an' doris before their retreat. 1914Joyce Dubliners 96 Let us have another one as a deoc an doruis. 1915A. D. Gillespie Lett. from Flanders (1916) 240 An impromptu concert, which wound up with a song from me and ‘wee doch-an-dorris’ from Bankier. 1920Glasgow Herald 17 Nov. 9 A deoch an doris or a kindly pledge in whisky. 1931A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. iv. 199 I'm wi' ye, juist a wee deoch-an-dorris to keep out the cauld. 1970Guardian 2 June 12/7 The Scot['s]..last drink, the deoch an doris, by ancient custom must be taken standing, and..need not be paid for. |