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▪ I. ‖ skol, n.|skɒl, older skəʊl|
Also skal, skoal, sköl; 7 scol, scoll, skole, scoill, scoall.
[ad. Da. and Norw. skaal, Sw. skål, repr. ON. skál bowl.]
A health in drinking; a toast. Also Comb.
In early use only Sc., perhaps introduced through the visit of James VI to Denmark in 1589. In recent use the Scandinavian spelling skaal is sometimes retained.
1600Scot. Acts, Jas. VI (1816) IV. 204 He was directit frome his mati⊇ To drink his scoll to my lord diuk and the rest of the companie. Ibid., Immediatlie after the scoill had passit about. 1649Ibid., Chas. II (1814) VI. ii. 174 All those who under whatsoever name..Drink healthes and scoalles. 1678Calderwood Hist. Ch. Scotl. 787 Sir William Beyer..stayed the taking away of the centries..till the Kings skole were drunk at that part of the bridge. 1840Longfellow Skel. in Armour xx, There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! Skoal! 1857Ld. Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 62 With the peculiar manners used in Scandinavian skoal-drinking I was already well acquainted. 1924Vogue late Jan. 64/2 If only I could make out why nobody dared touch his glass before someone else had said ‘Skål’, and why you yourself were at it the whole time. 1935J. D. Carr Death-Watch xix. 187 ‘Skoal,’ wheezed Dr. Fell absently. He pushed his glass away. 1948F. Brown Murder can be Fun (1951) ii. 24 ‘Skoal!’ he said. They drank. 1961Guardian 8 Feb. 12/5 ‘Skol’ which we imagine to be a jolly kind of ‘Cheerio’ on lifting a glass, is an essential part of Swedish etiquette. 1961M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ix. 116 We..learned the etiquette of sköl. The Swedes are enthusiastic drinkers. 1973D. Francis Slay-Ride i. 17 ‘Skol’ they said. ‘Skol’ I repeated. They watched interestedly while I drank.
▪ II. skol, v.
In 6–7 scoll, 7 scole, scoall, 20 skoal, skol.
[f. prec.]
a. intr. To drink healths; to drink deeply. orig. Sc.
a1598[implied in skoling vbl. n.]. 1624Extr. Aberdeen Register (1848) II. 391 That nane presume..to vrge thair nichtbouris to waught or scole farder nor thair plesour. 1909E. Pound Personae 17, I skoal to the eyes as grey⁓blown mere..Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
b. trans. To drink the health of.
1935G. Greene England made Me i. 1 She swallowed it at a draught.. skoal, skoal, but there was no one to skoal. 1963Times 23 Jan. 12/7 There was ample time to skol one another. 1980P. Harcourt Tomorrow's Treason i. iv. 67 We had skolled in champagne the bonfires being lit around the fjord.
Hence ˈskoling vbl. n.
a1598Rollock Serm. Wks. 1849 I. 395 He is harling them to harlatrie,..to scolling and drinking. 1649Sc. Acts, Chas. II (1814) VI. ii. 174 Healthing and scoalling is the occasion of much drunkennesse. 1928H. Crane Let. 27 Mar. (1965) 320 Many bottles of dubious gin and whiskey—with much ‘skoling’. |