Definition of quaff in English:

quaff

verb kwɒfkwɑːfkwɑf

[with object]

Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily.
狂饮，痛饮，大口喝（某物，尤指烈性酒）
he quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale
Example sentencesExamples
- Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts.
- There are usually clusters of them sitting at the cosy bar or one of the red-and-white checked tables, quaffing rich Medoc or chilled Chardonnay while munching black olives and thick slices of country pâté on fresh baguettes.
- Frankly, however, awards ceremonies do not constitute entertainment of any value, unless you are actually there quaffing the pricey champagne (and even then, it's debatable).
- Best bet is to join the Danes in doing what comes naturally - sitting outside the plentiful restaurants in and around the main square quaffing the local lager and sampling the quite acceptable fast food.
- Tom enjoyed just three frothy pints, and he wisely quaffed a liter of H20 before bed.
- Upstairs at Comptons was closed so after quaffing a quick pint on the stairs, the Townswomen's Guild retired to the more sedate surrounds of The Yard's loft bar.
- As McLeish and his players quaffed the inevitable champagne last night, no-one was entitled to question their bottle.
- There were two public houses, the ‘Rockingham Arms’ and the ‘George and Dragon’ where the estate workers used to meet and socialize after work, quaffing a few pints of ale in the process.
- Needless to say, quite a few small sherries were quaffed and a grand time was had by all.
- At fashionable Bailey's, for example, they flow out of the pub and into the streets, quaffing pints of stout; on Camden Street, the scene is repeated in new clubs like Mono and Planet Murphy.
- As ever Debbie put on a lovely spread of food, and there was much alcohol to be quaffed merrily, including one of the most potent punches ever, and cocktails.
- I'll be thinking of these good-hearted people when I'm quaffing champagne, honest!
- Polished young things quaffed wine from oversized goblets, occasionally making a grab for the trays of mini-burgers and chicken satay being passed around by impeccably dressed waiters.
- Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés.
- While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
- Pubs were packed and main sponsors Guinness reckoned up to 200,000 pints will be quaffed during the festival.
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
- South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local.
- Irish people, North and South, guzzled their way through £600m worth of soft drinks last year, quaffing 729m litres of their favourite non-alcoholic tipples in the process.
Synonyms
drink, swallow, gulp (down), guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink up/down, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap
take alcohol, indulge, tipple, carouse, overdrink, overindulge, tope
informal booze, sink, kill, glug, swig, swill, slug, hit, knock back, dispose of, toss off, get one's laughing gear round
take a drop, wet one's whistle, hit the bottle, take to the bottle, crack a bottle, drink like a fish, get tanked up
British informal get outside (of), shift, murder, neck, bevvy
North American informal bend one's elbow, chug, snarf (down), scarf (down)
archaic bib, sot

noun kwɒfkwɑːfkwɑf

dated, informal

An alcoholic drink.
〈非正式，旧〉烈性酒
porter is a dark, malty quaff
Example sentencesExamples
- Try it with other tropical purées, such as passion fruit or guava, and you've got some ideal summer quaffs.
- If you mix three different rums with four kinds of fruit juice, the chances that the finished product will be a pleasant quaff are pretty good.
- The first drink you'll find here is Summer Berries, a non-alcoholic quaff, though I'm sure it would also work well with a lot of rum, tequila, gin, or vodka.
- There's nothing so complex about the wine itself, which like the Shiraz/ Malbec is a good value quaff.
- For a simpler lunchtime quaff I'd opt for the red Domaine Herbouze Côtes due Rhône 2000, which is soft and slightly peppery.
- This delicious quaff is made from Ponchatoula strawberries and fresh lemons.
- Among whites, the traditional vinho verde is a summer quaff with practically electric acidity.
- Flashing a parole identification card, the wiry Drummondville native explains that although he'd like to sample the occasional quaff in a pub, he'll have to wait until age 69 before he can.
Synonyms
alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, liquor, intoxicant

Derivatives

quaffable

adjective

From the Silk Road to Shanghai, wine in the Middle Kingdom has had a long march through history to evolve into what is fast becoming a quaffable libation for trendy young high-fliers.
Example sentencesExamples
- Okay, so it's not the most sophisticated wine, but compared with some of the filth sloshing around at the same price, Blue Nun is eminently quaffable.
- A scrumptious pizza, half-a-litre of very quaffable wine and three scoops of the finest ice cream cost just over £10 which was a real bargain in a city reckoned to be one of the dearer European destinations.
- It's definitely not an offensive wine, rather the opposite, it's very quaffable; but a little tame for my liking.
- With his wife Alison, he opened the brewery ten years ago, and has since established his beers as among the most distinctive and quaffable around.

quaffer

noun

You real ale quaffers are like free-range hens, roaming the countryside, feasting on what Mother Nature intended, while I'm the poor, battery version that's been unwittingly pumped full of lager chemicals all his life.
Example sentencesExamples
- His one-time teammate Ian Botham was another notorious quaffer and muncher.
- Even some of the most legendary quaffers of the Fourth Estate retained a modicum of dignity.
- The Literary Press Group of Canada sponsors the event on the occasion of it being April, which, as every local latté quaffer knows, is National Poetry Month.
- Forget Shiraz quaffers - working-class voters have reason to be sullen

Origin

Early 16th century: probably imitative of the sound of drinking.

Rhymes

boff, cough, doff, far-off, off, roll-on roll-off, scoff, telling-off, toff, trough

Definition of quaff in US English:

quaff

verbkwäfkwɑf

[with object]

Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily.
狂饮，痛饮，大口喝（某物，尤指烈性酒）
he quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale
Example sentencesExamples
- I'll be thinking of these good-hearted people when I'm quaffing champagne, honest!
- Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts.
- Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
- Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés.
- Pubs were packed and main sponsors Guinness reckoned up to 200,000 pints will be quaffed during the festival.
- At fashionable Bailey's, for example, they flow out of the pub and into the streets, quaffing pints of stout; on Camden Street, the scene is repeated in new clubs like Mono and Planet Murphy.
- Irish people, North and South, guzzled their way through £600m worth of soft drinks last year, quaffing 729m litres of their favourite non-alcoholic tipples in the process.
- Tom enjoyed just three frothy pints, and he wisely quaffed a liter of H20 before bed.
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- Polished young things quaffed wine from oversized goblets, occasionally making a grab for the trays of mini-burgers and chicken satay being passed around by impeccably dressed waiters.
- While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
- There were two public houses, the ‘Rockingham Arms’ and the ‘George and Dragon’ where the estate workers used to meet and socialize after work, quaffing a few pints of ale in the process.
- Upstairs at Comptons was closed so after quaffing a quick pint on the stairs, the Townswomen's Guild retired to the more sedate surrounds of The Yard's loft bar.
- As McLeish and his players quaffed the inevitable champagne last night, no-one was entitled to question their bottle.
- Needless to say, quite a few small sherries were quaffed and a grand time was had by all.
- South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local.
- There are usually clusters of them sitting at the cosy bar or one of the red-and-white checked tables, quaffing rich Medoc or chilled Chardonnay while munching black olives and thick slices of country pâté on fresh baguettes.
- Best bet is to join the Danes in doing what comes naturally - sitting outside the plentiful restaurants in and around the main square quaffing the local lager and sampling the quite acceptable fast food.
- Frankly, however, awards ceremonies do not constitute entertainment of any value, unless you are actually there quaffing the pricey champagne (and even then, it's debatable).
- As ever Debbie put on a lovely spread of food, and there was much alcohol to be quaffed merrily, including one of the most potent punches ever, and cocktails.
Synonyms
drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap

nounkwäfkwɑf

dated, informal

An alcoholic drink.
〈非正式，旧〉烈性酒
porter is a dark, malty quaff
Example sentencesExamples
- This delicious quaff is made from Ponchatoula strawberries and fresh lemons.
- Flashing a parole identification card, the wiry Drummondville native explains that although he'd like to sample the occasional quaff in a pub, he'll have to wait until age 69 before he can.
- For a simpler lunchtime quaff I'd opt for the red Domaine Herbouze Côtes due Rhône 2000, which is soft and slightly peppery.
- There's nothing so complex about the wine itself, which like the Shiraz/ Malbec is a good value quaff.
- The first drink you'll find here is Summer Berries, a non-alcoholic quaff, though I'm sure it would also work well with a lot of rum, tequila, gin, or vodka.
- Among whites, the traditional vinho verde is a summer quaff with practically electric acidity.
- Try it with other tropical purées, such as passion fruit or guava, and you've got some ideal summer quaffs.
- If you mix three different rums with four kinds of fruit juice, the chances that the finished product will be a pleasant quaff are pretty good.
Synonyms
alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, liquor, intoxicant

Origin

Early 16th century: probably imitative of the sound of drinking.

单词	quaff
释义	Definition of quaff in English: quaff verb kwɒfkwɑːfkwɑf [with object] Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily. 狂饮，痛饮，大口喝（某物，尤指烈性酒） he quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale Example sentencesExamples Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts. There are usually clusters of them sitting at the cosy bar or one of the red-and-white checked tables, quaffing rich Medoc or chilled Chardonnay while munching black olives and thick slices of country pâté on fresh baguettes. Frankly, however, awards ceremonies do not constitute entertainment of any value, unless you are actually there quaffing the pricey champagne (and even then, it's debatable). Best bet is to join the Danes in doing what comes naturally - sitting outside the plentiful restaurants in and around the main square quaffing the local lager and sampling the quite acceptable fast food. Tom enjoyed just three frothy pints, and he wisely quaffed a liter of H20 before bed. Upstairs at Comptons was closed so after quaffing a quick pint on the stairs, the Townswomen's Guild retired to the more sedate surrounds of The Yard's loft bar. As McLeish and his players quaffed the inevitable champagne last night, no-one was entitled to question their bottle. There were two public houses, the ‘Rockingham Arms’ and the ‘George and Dragon’ where the estate workers used to meet and socialize after work, quaffing a few pints of ale in the process. Needless to say, quite a few small sherries were quaffed and a grand time was had by all. At fashionable Bailey's, for example, they flow out of the pub and into the streets, quaffing pints of stout; on Camden Street, the scene is repeated in new clubs like Mono and Planet Murphy. As ever Debbie put on a lovely spread of food, and there was much alcohol to be quaffed merrily, including one of the most potent punches ever, and cocktails. I'll be thinking of these good-hearted people when I'm quaffing champagne, honest! Polished young things quaffed wine from oversized goblets, occasionally making a grab for the trays of mini-burgers and chicken satay being passed around by impeccably dressed waiters. Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés. While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets. Pubs were packed and main sponsors Guinness reckoned up to 200,000 pints will be quaffed during the festival. A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike. Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs. South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local. Irish people, North and South, guzzled their way through £600m worth of soft drinks last year, quaffing 729m litres of their favourite non-alcoholic tipples in the process. Synonyms drink, swallow, gulp (down), guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink up/down, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap take alcohol, indulge, tipple, carouse, overdrink, overindulge, tope informal booze, sink, kill, glug, swig, swill, slug, hit, knock back, dispose of, toss off, get one's laughing gear round take a drop, wet one's whistle, hit the bottle, take to the bottle, crack a bottle, drink like a fish, get tanked up British informal get outside (of), shift, murder, neck, bevvy North American informal bend one's elbow, chug, snarf (down), scarf (down) archaic bib, sot noun kwɒfkwɑːfkwɑf dated, informal An alcoholic drink. 〈非正式，旧〉烈性酒 porter is a dark, malty quaff Example sentencesExamples Try it with other tropical purées, such as passion fruit or guava, and you've got some ideal summer quaffs. If you mix three different rums with four kinds of fruit juice, the chances that the finished product will be a pleasant quaff are pretty good. The first drink you'll find here is Summer Berries, a non-alcoholic quaff, though I'm sure it would also work well with a lot of rum, tequila, gin, or vodka. There's nothing so complex about the wine itself, which like the Shiraz/ Malbec is a good value quaff. For a simpler lunchtime quaff I'd opt for the red Domaine Herbouze Côtes due Rhône 2000, which is soft and slightly peppery. This delicious quaff is made from Ponchatoula strawberries and fresh lemons. Among whites, the traditional vinho verde is a summer quaff with practically electric acidity. Flashing a parole identification card, the wiry Drummondville native explains that although he'd like to sample the occasional quaff in a pub, he'll have to wait until age 69 before he can. Synonyms alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, liquor, intoxicant Derivatives quaffable adjective From the Silk Road to Shanghai, wine in the Middle Kingdom has had a long march through history to evolve into what is fast becoming a quaffable libation for trendy young high-fliers. Example sentencesExamples Okay, so it's not the most sophisticated wine, but compared with some of the filth sloshing around at the same price, Blue Nun is eminently quaffable. A scrumptious pizza, half-a-litre of very quaffable wine and three scoops of the finest ice cream cost just over £10 which was a real bargain in a city reckoned to be one of the dearer European destinations. It's definitely not an offensive wine, rather the opposite, it's very quaffable; but a little tame for my liking. With his wife Alison, he opened the brewery ten years ago, and has since established his beers as among the most distinctive and quaffable around. quaffer noun You real ale quaffers are like free-range hens, roaming the countryside, feasting on what Mother Nature intended, while I'm the poor, battery version that's been unwittingly pumped full of lager chemicals all his life. Example sentencesExamples His one-time teammate Ian Botham was another notorious quaffer and muncher. Even some of the most legendary quaffers of the Fourth Estate retained a modicum of dignity. The Literary Press Group of Canada sponsors the event on the occasion of it being April, which, as every local latté quaffer knows, is National Poetry Month. Forget Shiraz quaffers - working-class voters have reason to be sullen Origin Early 16th century: probably imitative of the sound of drinking. Rhymes boff, cough, doff, far-off, off, roll-on roll-off, scoff, telling-off, toff, trough Definition of quaff in US English: quaff verbkwäfkwɑf [with object] Drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink) heartily. 狂饮，痛饮，大口喝（某物，尤指烈性酒） he quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale Example sentencesExamples I'll be thinking of these good-hearted people when I'm quaffing champagne, honest! Firstly, the youth of today do not understand the meaning of the word temperance, an extra hour's drinking will simply mean an extra four pints of premium strength lager quaffed by these hedonistic louts. Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs. Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés. Pubs were packed and main sponsors Guinness reckoned up to 200,000 pints will be quaffed during the festival. At fashionable Bailey's, for example, they flow out of the pub and into the streets, quaffing pints of stout; on Camden Street, the scene is repeated in new clubs like Mono and Planet Murphy. Irish people, North and South, guzzled their way through £600m worth of soft drinks last year, quaffing 729m litres of their favourite non-alcoholic tipples in the process. Tom enjoyed just three frothy pints, and he wisely quaffed a liter of H20 before bed. A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike. Polished young things quaffed wine from oversized goblets, occasionally making a grab for the trays of mini-burgers and chicken satay being passed around by impeccably dressed waiters. While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets. There were two public houses, the ‘Rockingham Arms’ and the ‘George and Dragon’ where the estate workers used to meet and socialize after work, quaffing a few pints of ale in the process. Upstairs at Comptons was closed so after quaffing a quick pint on the stairs, the Townswomen's Guild retired to the more sedate surrounds of The Yard's loft bar. As McLeish and his players quaffed the inevitable champagne last night, no-one was entitled to question their bottle. Needless to say, quite a few small sherries were quaffed and a grand time was had by all. South Africa is a sport-mad country and the loss of another sportsman is noticeable and the subject of much mournful debate whilst quaffing beer at the local. There are usually clusters of them sitting at the cosy bar or one of the red-and-white checked tables, quaffing rich Medoc or chilled Chardonnay while munching black olives and thick slices of country pâté on fresh baguettes. Best bet is to join the Danes in doing what comes naturally - sitting outside the plentiful restaurants in and around the main square quaffing the local lager and sampling the quite acceptable fast food. Frankly, however, awards ceremonies do not constitute entertainment of any value, unless you are actually there quaffing the pricey champagne (and even then, it's debatable). As ever Debbie put on a lovely spread of food, and there was much alcohol to be quaffed merrily, including one of the most potent punches ever, and cocktails. Synonyms drink, swallow, gulp, gulp down, guzzle, slurp, attack, down, drink down, drink up, force down, get down, finish off, polish off, drain, empty, imbibe, have, take, partake of, ingest, consume, sup, sip, lap nounkwäfkwɑf dated, informal An alcoholic drink. 〈非正式，旧〉烈性酒 porter is a dark, malty quaff Example sentencesExamples This delicious quaff is made from Ponchatoula strawberries and fresh lemons. Flashing a parole identification card, the wiry Drummondville native explains that although he'd like to sample the occasional quaff in a pub, he'll have to wait until age 69 before he can. For a simpler lunchtime quaff I'd opt for the red Domaine Herbouze Côtes due Rhône 2000, which is soft and slightly peppery. There's nothing so complex about the wine itself, which like the Shiraz/ Malbec is a good value quaff. The first drink you'll find here is Summer Berries, a non-alcoholic quaff, though I'm sure it would also work well with a lot of rum, tequila, gin, or vodka. Among whites, the traditional vinho verde is a summer quaff with practically electric acidity. Try it with other tropical purées, such as passion fruit or guava, and you've got some ideal summer quaffs. If you mix three different rums with four kinds of fruit juice, the chances that the finished product will be a pleasant quaff are pretty good. Synonyms alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, liquor, intoxicant Origin Early 16th century: probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
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