waughtn.
/wɔːxt/, /wɔːt/, U.S. /wɔt/, /wɑt/, /wɔxt/, /wɑxt/, Scottish English /wɔxt/ Scottish and northern.
A copious draught. Also transferred and figurative.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously
quaffing1533
glut1541
carouse1559
quaff1579
all out1582
carousing1582
skolinga1599
supernaculum1622
swig1622
waughting1637
kelty1664
swigging1702
waught1721
toot1787
willie-waught1826
swiping1833
swipe1866
bottomer1876
1721 A. Ramsay Answer to Burchet 2 Thirsting for fame, at the Pierian spring, The poet takes a waught.
1722 A. Ramsay Spring & Syke 11 Ae day, after great waughts of wet.
1796 R. Burns Auld Lang Syne v, in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 426 And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 72 Ye needna stick to gi'e them a waught o' drink and a bannock.
1882 C. Gibbon Golden Shaft xxxii Sae my father takes up the bottle and took a waft and says he—‘Ay, that's rael fine chlorodyne’.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xix. 219 I had a good waucht of milk in by Ratho.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
waughtv.
/wɔːxt/, /wɔːt/, U.S. /wɔt/, /wɑt/, /wɔxt/, /wɑxt/, Scottish English /wɔxt/ Scottish.
transitive. To drink or quaff in large draughts; to drain (a goblet); also with out, over. Also absol. or intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely
wassailc1300
waught?a1513
quaff1520
to drink (it) all outa1522
bibblea1529
quaught1530
to set cock on the hoopa1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
to drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse1567
troll-the-bowl1575
to take one's rousea1593
pot1622
tope1668
toot1676
compotate1694
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
birlea1800
to splice the mainbrace1805
jollify1830
brimmer1838
to give it a bit of a nudge1966
nudge1966
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely
bibc1400
waught?a1513
quaff1558
swill1563
carouse1580
tipple1581
bibble1582
tun1589
bousea1612
tope1654
fuddle1756
demolish1864
to throw back1943
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 42 Thay wauchtit at the wicht wyne.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. iii. 90 In flacon and in skull Thai skynk the wyne, and wauchtis coupis full.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 26 To wacht gude wyne.
1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 94 Except his coup var vachtit out aluay.
1624 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 391 That nane presume..to wse at any tyme any excessive drinking or scolling, or to vrge thair nichtbouris to waught or scole farder nor thair plesour.
1728 A. Ramsay On seeing Archers divert Themselves 100 How heaty went these healths about! How blythly were they waughted out!
c1730 A. Ramsay Masque 193 I waught o'er This flowing glass of..wine.
1849 W. Jamie Stray Effusions 27 (E.D.D.) Packman billies waught their ale.
Derivatives
ˈwaughting n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously
quaffing1533
glut1541
carouse1559
quaff1579
all out1582
carousing1582
skolinga1599
supernaculum1622
swig1622
waughting1637
kelty1664
swigging1702
waught1721
toot1787
willie-waught1826
swiping1833
swipe1866
bottomer1876
1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 173 Excessive drinking and waughting.
1842 D. Vedder Poems 78 But now he's a dyvor, wi' birling an' wauchin'.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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