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English

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishdrinken, fromOld Englishdrincan(“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), fromProto-West Germanic*drinkan, fromProto-Germanic*drinkaną(“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly fromProto-Indo-European*dʰrenǵ-(“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of*dʰreǵ-(“to draw, glide”).

Cognates

Cognate withYoladrink(“to drink”),North Frisiandrank,drainke,drink,drinke(“to drink”),West Frisiandrinke(“to drink”),Alemannic Germantrénge,trenhu,trinche,tringhien,trinke(“to drink”),Bavariandringa,trinckn,trinkhn,trinkn(“to drink”),Cimbriantrinkan,trinkhan(“to drink”),Dutch,Low Germandrinken(“to drink”),German,Mòchenotrinken(“to drink”),Luxembourgishdrénken(“to drink”),Yiddishטרינקען(trinken,“to drink”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmåldrikke(“to drink”),Elfdaliandrikka(“to drink”),Faroese,Icelandicdrekka(“to drink”),Jutishdrenk(“to drink”),Norwegian Nynorskdrikka,drikke(“to drink”),Swedishdricka(“to drink”),Gothic𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽(drigkan,“to drink”),Vandalicdrincan(“to drink”),Frenchtrinquer(“to booze, drink alcohol”),Italiantrincare(“to knock back (a drink)”),Spanishtrincar(“to get drunk”).

Verb

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Womandrinking a glass of water

drink (third-person singular simple presentdrinks,present participledrinking,simple pastdrankor(Southern US)drunkor(nonstandard)drinked,past participledrunkor(chiefly archaic)drunkenor(dialectal)drankor(all, nonstandard, archaic or obsolete)drinkedordrinkenordranken)

  1. (ambitransitive) Toconsume (a liquid) through the mouth.
    Synonyms:gulp,imbibe,quaff,sip,seeThesaurus:drink
    Hedrank the water I gave him.
    You can lead a horse to water but you can't make himdrink.
  2. (transitive, metonymic) Toconsume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
    Jackdrank the whole bottle by himself.
  3. (intransitive) Toconsumealcoholicbeverages.
    Synonyms:drinkalcohol,booze
    Near-synonyms:hit the bottle,hit the sauce
    You've beendrinking, haven't you?
    No thanks, I don'tdrink.
    Everyone who isdrinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking isdrinking.
  4. (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
    • 1697,Virgil, “The Fourth Book of theGeorgics”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Let the purple violetsdrink the stream.
  5. (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  6. (transitive, archaic) Totoast (someone or something) with a drink,honour; towish well (seedrink to), especially:
    • 1842,Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, inThe Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume II, London:Macmillan and Co., published1884,→OCLC, part iv,page131:
      Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
      Visions of a perfect State :Drink we, last, the public fool,
      Frantic love and frantic hate.
    1. To express one's desire for the accomplishment of a toast, sentiment or event, towish,hope (for),forward (especially as 'to drink the health (of someone)').
      • 1710,Thomas Hearne,Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne:
        At the same time were great Acclamations & theydrunk Damnation to Dr. Sacheverell, Mr Tilly, and all the Drs friends.
      • 1712 December 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “FRIDAY, December 19, 1712”, inThe Spectator, number433; republished inAlexander Chalmers, editor,The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.:D[aniel] Appleton & Company,1853,→OCLC:
        I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine todrink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct.[…]
        The spelling has been modernized.
    2. (obsolete, withcarouse) [withto‘someone or something’]
      • c.1606–1607 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene viii],pages360-361, columns2-1:
        Had our great Pall ace the capacity
        To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together,
        Anddrinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate
        Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters
        With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare,
        Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines,
        That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together,
        Applauding our approach.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) Tosmoke, astobacco.
    • 1630,Taylor, John ("The Water Poet", 1578–1653),A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration:
      And some men now live ninety yeeres and past,
      Who neverdranke tobacco first nor last.
  8. Used in phrasal verbs:drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
Derived terms
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Terms derived fromdrink(verb)
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Descendants
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Translations
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consume liquid through the mouth

Udmurt:юыны(juyny)

consume alcoholic beverages
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Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishdrink,drinke (also asdrinche,drunch), fromOld Englishdrynċ, fromProto-Germanic*drunkiz,*drankiz.

Cognates

Cognate withSaterland FrisianDronk(“drink”),Cimbriangatrànkh(“drink”),Dutchdrank,dronk(“drink”),GermanGetränk,trank,Trunk(“drink”),German Low GermanDrank,Drunk(“drink”),Vilamoviangytrenḱ(“drink”),Danishdrik(“drink, beverage”),Icelandicdrykkur(“drink, beverage”),Norwegian Bokmåldrikk(“drink”),Norwegian Nynorskdrikk,drykk(“drink, alcohol”),Swedishdryck(“drink”),Gothic𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺(draggk),𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺(dragk,“drink”).

Noun

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drink (countable anduncountable,pluraldrinks)

  2. Abeverage.
    I’d like anotherdrink please.
  3. (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
  4. A type ofbeverage (usually mixed).
    My favouritedrink is the White Russian.
  6. A (served) alcoholicbeverage.
    Hypernym:beverage
    Can I buy you adrink?
  7. The action ofdrinking, especially with the verbstake orhave.
    He was about to take adrink from his root beer.
  8. Alcoholicbeverages in general.
    • 1935,George Goodchild, chapter 1, inDeath on the Centre Court:
      She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixeddrinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
    • 1979 February 10, Michael Bronski, “An American Dream”, inGay Community News, volume 6, number28, page11:
      By the late twenties father has died ofdrink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.
    • 1995, “Daddy's on theDrink” (track 12), inShame-Based Man‎[2], performed byBruce McCulloch:
      The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on thedrink again.
    • 2014 November 14,Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life,International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, inThe New York Times‎[3]:
      […] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed bothdrink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
  9. Astandard drink.
    Adrink of wine is about 5 ounces
    • 1963,Vital and Health Statistics: Programs and collection procedures, page125:
      And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3drinks a day?
  10. (colloquial, withthe) Any body of water.
    If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of thedrink!
    • 1996, John French+,A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword,→ISBN,page99:
      When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in thedrink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.
    • 2011, Levi Johnston,Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN,page34:
      In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in thedrink, splashing around.
    • 2012, Jack R. Myers,Shot at and Missed: Recollections of a World War II Bombardier, University of Oklahoma Press,→ISBN,page31:
      If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in thedrink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.
  11. (Australia, figurative) Adownpour; acloudburst; arainstorm; adeluge; a lot ofrain.
    • 2023 April 13,07:56 am (UTC+10/AEST), inNews Breakfast, season2023, episode74, spoken by Nate Byrne, Melbourne, Australia:ABC News:
      Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting adrink butW.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].
  12. (informal)This term needs a definition. Please help out andadd a definition, then remove the text{{rfdef}}
    • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:
      He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A hugedrink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.
Usage notes
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Terms derived fromdrink (noun)
Descendants
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Translations
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served beverage—see alsobeverage
type of beverage
served alcoholic beverage—see alsoshot
action of drinking
alcoholic beverages in general
"the drink"- colloquially, any body of water
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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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FromDutchdrinken, fromMiddle Dutchdrinken, fromOld Dutchdrinkan, fromProto-Germanic*drinkaną.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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drink (presentdrink,present participledrinkende,past participlegedrink)

  1. todrink

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdrink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink m inan

  1. drink(a (mixed) alcoholic beverage)

Declension

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Declension ofdrink (velar masculine inanimate)
singularplural
nominativedrinkdrinky
genitivedrinkudrinků
dativedrinkudrinkům
accusativedrinkdrinky
vocativedrinkudrinky
locativedrinkudrincích
instrumentaldrinkemdrinky

Further reading

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Danish

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Etymology

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FromEnglishdrink.

Noun

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drink c (singular definitedrinken,plural indefinitedrinks)

  1. drink; a (mixed) alcoholic beverage

Inflection

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Declension ofdrink
common
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativedrinkdrinkendrinksdrinksene
genitivedrinksdrinkensdrinks'drinksenes

Synonyms

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Further reading

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed fromEnglishdrink.

Noun

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drink m (pluraldrinks,nodiminutive)

  1. (Belgium) a social event werebeverages are served, with or without snacks, e.g. as a celebration
  2. (Netherlands) abeverage, adrink

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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drink

  1. inflection ofdrinken:
    1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
    2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
    3. imperative

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdrink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink m (pluraldrinks)

  1. areception orafterparty where alcohol is served

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishdrink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink m (usuallyinvariable,plural(dated)drinks)

  1. drink(served beverage and mixed beverage)
    Synonym:bevanda
    • 1970, “Ⅻ”, in Mercedes Giardini, transl.,Il padrino, Milan: dall'Oglio editore, translation ofThe Godfather byMario Puzo, page160:
      «Non sono in forma con la voce», rispose. «E con tutta sincerità, sono stufo di sentirmi cantare». Sorseggiarono idrinks.
      "My voice is not doing well", he replied. "And, in all honesty, I'm tired of hearing myself singing". They sipped theirdrinks.
    • 2013,Paolo Sorrentino, 01:39:42 from the start, inLa grande bellezza, spoken by Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo):
      Io berrò moltidrink, ma non così tanti da diventare molesto.
      I'll drink manydrinks, but not so many to become annoying.

References

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  1. ^drink inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • drink in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Low German

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Verb

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drink

  1. first-personsingular ofdrinken

North Frisian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Frisiandrinka, fromProto-West Germanic*drinkan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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drink (present)

  1. (Sylt, Heligoland) todrink

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofdrink (Sylt dialect)
infinitive Idrink
infinitive II(tö) drinken
past participledrunken
imperativedrink
 presentpast
1st singulardrinkdroonk
2nd singulardrinkstdroonkst
3rd singulardrinktdroonk
plural / dualdrinkdroonk
 perfectpluperfect
1st singularhaa drunkenher drunken
2nd singularheest drunkenherst drunken
3rd singularheer drunkenher drunken
plural / dualhaa drunkenher drunken
 future (skel)future (wel)
1st singularskel drinkwel drink
2nd singularsket drinkwet drink
3rd singularskel drinkwel drink
plural / dualskel drinkwel drink

Polish

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PolishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediapl
drink

Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdrink.Doublet ofdręk andtrunek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink m animal

  1. cocktail,drink(served alcoholic beverage)
    • 2011, “Kawałek do tańca”, performed by Poparzeni Kawą Trzy:
      Jeszcze trochę do północy
      drink jak zagubiony pocisk
      strzelił mocno mi do głowy
      coraz trudniej się wysłowić.
      There's still some time before midnight
      Thedrink, like a lost bullet,
      shot me right in the head
      it's getting harder and harder to speak.

Declension

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Declension ofdrink
singularplural
nominativedrinkdrinki
genitivedrinkadrinków
dativedrinkowidrinkom
accusativedrinkadrinki
instrumentaldrinkiemdrinkami
locativedrinkudrinkach
vocativedrinkudrinki

Derived terms

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verbs

Further reading

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  • drink inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • drink in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishdrink.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink m (pluraldrinks)

  1. alternative form ofdrinque

Swedish

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SwedishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediasv
en drink (cocktail)

Etymology

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FromEnglishdrink.Doublet ofdryck.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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drink c

  1. adrink ((mixed) alcoholic beverage)
    ta endrink
    enjoy adrink

Usage notes

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Drink in the more general sense ofbeverage isdryck.

Declension

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Declension ofdrink
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitedrinkdrinks
definitedrinkendrinkens
pluralindefinitedrinkardrinkars
definitedrinkarnadrinkarnas

Derived terms

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West Frisian

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Verb

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drink

  1. first-personsingularpresent ofdrinke
  2. imperative ofdrinke

Yola

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishdrinken, fromOld Englishdrincan, fromProto-West Germanic*drinkan.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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drink

  1. todrink
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, pages96[2]:
      Drink a heall to a breede. "Shud with, a voorneen."
      Drink a health to the bride, "Here's to you, my dear."

Noun

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drink

  1. drink
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page98:
      Tibbès an crockès weedrink war ee-felt.
      [Tubs and crocks were filled withdrink.]

References

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  1. ^Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, inlrish University Review‎[1], volume20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page150
  2. ^Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page96
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