waughtn.

Brit.

/wɔːxt/,

/wɔːt/, U.S.

/wɔt/,

/wɑt/,

/wɔxt/,

/wɑxt/, Scottish English

/wɔxt/

Forms: Also 1800s waucht, waft.

Etymology: < waught v.

Scottish and northern.

A copious draught. Also transferred and figurative.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously

quaffing1533

glut1541

carouse1559

quaff1579

all out1582

carousing1582

skolinga1599

supernaculum1622

swig1622

waughting1637

kelty1664

swigging1702

waught1721

toot1787

willie-waught1826

swiping1833

swipe1866

bottomer1876

1721 A. Ramsay Answer to Burchet 2 Thirsting for fame, at the Pierian spring, The poet takes a waught.

1722 A. Ramsay Spring & Syke 11 Ae day, after great waughts of wet.

1796 R. Burns Auld Lang Syne v, in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 426 And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught, For auld lang syne.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 72 Ye needna stick to gi'e them a waught o' drink and a bannock.

1882 C. Gibbon Golden Shaft xxxii Sae my father takes up the bottle and took a waft and says he—‘Ay, that's rael fine chlorodyne’.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xix. 219 I had a good waucht of milk in by Ratho.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

waughtv.

Brit.

/wɔːxt/,

/wɔːt/, U.S.

/wɔt/,

/wɑt/,

/wɔxt/,

/wɑxt/, Scottish English

/wɔxt/

Forms: 1500s waucht, wacht, vacht, 1800s wauch, 1600s–1800s waught.

Etymology: Of obscure origin; probably allied to quaff v., quaught v.

Scottish.

transitive. To drink or quaff in large draughts; to drain (a goblet); also with out, over. Also absol. or intransitive.

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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

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely

bibc1400

waught?a1513

quaff1558

swill1563

carouse1580

tipple1581

bibble1582

tun1589

bousea1612

tope1654

fuddle1756

demolish1864

to throw back1943

a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 42 Thay wauchtit at the wicht wyne.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iii. 90 In flacon and in skull Thai skynk the wyne, and wauchtis coupis full.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 26 To wacht gude wyne.

1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 94 Except his coup var vachtit out aluay.

1624 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 391 That nane presume..to wse at any tyme any excessive drinking or scolling, or to vrge thair nichtbouris to waught or scole farder nor thair plesour.

1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 100 How heaty went these healths about! How blythly were they waughted out!

c1730 A. Ramsay Masque 193 I waught o'er This flowing glass of..wine.

1849 W. Jamie Stray Effusions 27 (E.D.D.) Packman billies waught their ale.

Derivatives

ˈwaughting n.

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