单词 | slainte |
释义 | slainteint. A Gaelic toast: good health! ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking salutations [interjection] > in drinking healths have towardsc1400 here's to1597 skol1600 tope1651 hob or nob1756 slainte1824 here's hoping, how, looking (at you), luck1888 santé1903 prosit1916 here's to the skin off your nose1925 (here's) mud in your eye1927 lechayim1932 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. vii. 159 He then took up the tankard, and saying aloud in Gaelic, ‘Slaint an Rey’, just tasted the liquor. 1880 A. P. Graves Irish Songs & Ballads 71 Here's a health to you, Father O'Flynn, Slainté, and slainté, and slainté agin. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 43 Well: slainte! 1949 E. Coxhead Wind in West iv. 114 ‘Slainte mhor, Rory!’ cried Kurt, who knew what was necessary in every language. 1952 ‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands vii. 105 ‘Slainte!’ he said, and took a swig of it. 1966 ‘S. Forbes’ Terror touches Me iv. 43 ‘Here, Brendan. Slainté.’ Brendan's hand trembled as he took the full glass. 1980 M. McMullen My Cousin Death (1981) vi. 78 Upshaw gave him his drink..‘Slainte.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < int.1824 |
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