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单词 quax
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quaxv.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Perhaps a borrowing from German. Etymons: quass v.; German quaßen, Middle Low German quāsen, quassen.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of quass v., or perhaps independently < its early modern German or Middle Low German etymons.The wording in quot. 1509 is apparently not closely modelled on that of the French (Riviere or Drouyn), Latin (Locher), or German versions of the text.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To drain (a drinking vessel) in one draught or in long draughts; to quaff. Cf. quass v.
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1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxliv Some drynkes: some quaxes the canykyn halfe full.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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