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单词 to drink off candle-ends
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to drink off (or eat) candle-ends
b. to drink off (or eat) candle-ends: a romantic extravagance in drinking a lady's health by which gallants gave token of their devotion. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths
hailc1275
to drink (a person's) hailc1325
to drink good lucka1529
pledge1546
carouse1583
skola1599
to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600
health1628
to begin to a person1629
bumper1691
toast1699
to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756
hob-nob1763
hobber-nob1800
to look towards (a person)1833
propine1887
ganbei1940
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 248 Dol Why does the prince loue him so then? Fal. Because..a..eates cunger and fennel, and drinkes off candles endes for flappe-dragons. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) ii. i. sig. D2v Carowse her health in Cans and candles ends.
a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 220 in Wks. (1640) III But none that will hang themselves for Love, or eate candles ends,..as the Sublunary Lovers doe.
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