单词 | drink-hail |
释义 | † drink-hailn. Obsolete exc. Historical. The customary courteous reply to a pledge in drinking in early English times. The cup was offered with the salutation wæs hail ‘health or good luck to you’ (see wassail n.), to which the reply was drinc hail, ‘drink good health or good luck’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting > a toast > reply drink-hailc1275 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7152 Þat freond sæiðe to freonde..Leofue freond wæs hail Þe oðer sæið Drinc hail [c1300 Otho Dringhail]. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 118 With a coppe of gold, fol of wyn..A kne to þe kyng heo [Rowena] seyde, ‘lord kyng wasseyl’..Drinkhayl, quoth this kyng agen, & bed hire drinke anon. 1350–70 Eulog. Hist. (1863) III. v. cxxv. 110 More Saxonico salutavit, et ait: Wassayl..Rex dedit responsum: Drinkhayle, et monachus læto vultu ciphum hausit. 14.. How Good Wyf tauȝte Douȝtir (Trin. MS.) in Babees Bk. 44 Syt nat vp long At euyn As A gase with the cuppe To sey wessayle, and drynke heylle. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold III. xi. xii. 245 Leofwine..rose to propose the drink-hæl.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1275 |
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