quaff
Anglais[modifier le wikicode]
Étymologie[modifier le wikicode]
- De l'irlandais, du gaélique cauch, de l'écosais quaich, queff (coupe). (information à préciser ou à vérifier)
Verbe [modifier le wikicode]
quaff
- Boire un cul sec, ingurgiter.
- Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health — (Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew i 2, 1594)
- They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet, Quaff immortality and joy… — (John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V, 1667)
- Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore! — (Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, 1845)
- Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage. — (Nathaniel Hawthorne, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, 1852)