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(thing) by RimRod (14.5 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Fri Mar 23 2001 at 21:36:09

Standard English: To drink with relish, copiously.

Nethack: To drink in one big gulp, because a large monster might be right behind you and you don't have time to sip.

Discworld: Just like drinking, except you spill most of it.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 1 C! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:24:59

Quaff (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quaffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quaffing.] [For quach, fr. Gael. & Ir. cuach a drinking cup; cf. L. caucus a drinking vessel. Cf. Quaigh.]

To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.

"Quaffed off the muscadel."

Shak.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.

 

© Webster 1913.


Quaff (?), v. i.

To drink largely or luxuriously.

Twelve days the gods their solemn revels keep, And quaff with blameless Ethiops in the deep. Dryden.

 

© Webster 1913.


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