单词 | to drink all out |
释义 | > as lemmasto drink (it) all out b. to drink (it) all out: to drink a whole tankard of wine, beer, etc.; to drain one's drink; to down a drink in one go (now historical). Hence: to drink copious amounts of alcohol. Also in extended use. Cf. to drink carouse at carouse adv.Now merging with sense A. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely wassailc1300 waught?a1513 quaff1520 to drink (it) all outa1522 bibblea1529 quaught1530 to set cock on the hoopa1535 quass1549 tipple1560 swillc1563 carouse1567 to drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse1567 troll-the-bowl1575 to take one's rousea1593 pot1622 tope1668 toot1676 compotate1694 to soak one's clay (or face)1704 birlea1800 to splice the mainbrace1805 jollify1830 brimmer1838 to give it a bit of a nudge1966 nudge1966 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. xi. 63 He merely ressavis the remand tays, All owt he drank, and quhelmyt the gold on his face. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 676/2 I quaught, I drinke all out. Je boys dautant. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) 151 There be many good felowes, the whyche wyll drynke all out. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 13 To say drink a Garaus..which is to say All out. 1618 W. P. tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. IV. 928 Some haue litle bels hanging at their cups, by the ringing therof to shew their valor in drinking al out. 1658 J. Eliot Poems 96 Some swell with fat, and some consume, But they are sound that drink all out. 1708 J. Philips in Oxf. & Cambr. Misc. Poems 322 We'll drink the Universe dry; We'll set Foot to Foot, and drink it all out, If once we grow sober we die. 1728 Authentick Relation Hardships of Dutch Sailor 25 He [sc. the turtle] had likewise a great deal of Water in his Bladder, which I drank all out. 1893 W. F. Smith tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel in Wks. I. 382 I am not one of those importunate Huff-snuffs..who by Force..constrain the..Comrades to drink, nay, to carouse and drink all out, which is worse. 1911 E. D. Longman & S. Loch Pins & Pincushions vi. 95 To drink ‘garaux’ is to drink ‘all out’, hence ‘carouse’. 1989 S. Peele in D. J. Hanson Preventing Alcohol Abuse (1995) iii. 74 As alcohol was eliminated from the ordinary daily routines of the middle class, when people did drink, they were more likely to go on binges where they drank all out. < as lemmas |
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