ganbeiint.n.v.
/ɡanˈbeɪ/ A Chinese drinking-toast, a call to drain one's glass. Also as v. intransitive and transitive, to drink (as) a toast.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > drink toasts or healths
hailc1275
to drink (a person's) hailc1325
to drink good lucka1529
pledge1546
carouse1583
skola1599
to drink off (or eat) candle-ends1600
health1628
to begin to a person1629
bumper1691
toast1699
to drink hob or nob, hob a nob1756
hob-nob1763
hobber-nob1800
to look towards (a person)1833
propine1887
ganbei1940
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > drinking to each other or toasting > a toast
wassailc1275
proface1586
pledge1594
carouse1599
fathom health1600
skol1600
health1602
pitcher-praise1654
toast1746
hob-nob1761
loyal toast1799
salamander1868
ganbei1940
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > pledge or toast
to drink to1530
pledge1546
brince?1567
brinks1568
carouse1583
dipa1657
toast1700
respect1708
bumper?1764
to look toward ——1833
propine1887
skol1935
ganbei1976
1940 V. Cressy-Marcks Journey into China vii. i. 257 We ‘Kaanpei-ed’ frequently, raising the small wine cups, and drinking the warm wine. They use the word Kaanpei, raising the glass to the guest, rather like our saying ‘Good health’.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) vii. 59 ‘Kan-pei!’ (Bottoms up!) we all said.
1976 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 7 July 4/2 One of the cordial customs in China is to ganbei a Mao-tai—to down in one dash a glass of the country's famous colourless wheat-based liquor.
1977 O. Schell China (1978) i. 131 He arrives at our table with several other merrymakers, all holding wineglasses, and proposes a kan-pei (bottoms up).
1987 Time 13 Apr. 85/1 Many ganbei, or toasts, drunk with..mao-tai whisky, cloyingly sweet orange soda or cool, refreshing Chinese beer were raised.
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