quaff
Étymologie
modifier- De l'irlandais, du gaélique cauch, de l'écosais quaich, queff (coupe). (information à préciser ou à vérifier)
Verbe
modifierquaff
- 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)