Quaff

Tuesday 24^th May 2016

Quaff \ [kwof, kwaf, kwawf] 

verb (used without object)

1. to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with

hearty enjoyment.

verb (used with object)

2. to drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily:

We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.

noun

3. an act or instance of quaffing.

4. a beverage quaffed.

Quote

Tonight we will quaff this nectar, which, I assure you, could not be bought with

gold.

.....Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance, 1852

Origin

Quaff is of uncertain origin. It entered English in the early 1500's.

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