Guzzle vs Quaff - What's the difference?

Quaff is a synonym of guzzle.

As verbs the difference between guzzle and quaff

is that guzzle is to drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust while quaff is to drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.

As nouns the difference between guzzle and quaff

is that guzzle is drink; intoxicating liquor while quaff is the act of quaffing, a deep draught.

guzzle

English

Verb

(guzzl)

To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.

They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.

* 1720 , , “Friday; or, the Dirge” in Poems on Several Occasions , Google Books

No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.

* 1971 ,

What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?

(dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

* 1649 , , Google Books

A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

* 1684 , , Essay on Translated Verse , Google Books

Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles , chats the doctor's praise.

* 1859 , , The Virginians , Google Books

Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled , devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]

(by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

This car just guzzles petrol.

* 2004 , Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report , [http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm]

China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

Synonyms

* swig, swill

Derived terms

* guzzler

Noun

(en noun)

(dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.

Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle ! —

(dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.

(dated) An insatiable thing or person.

(obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen .

* 1598 , , The Scourge of Villanie Google Books

Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?

* 1623 , W. Whately, Bride Bush ,

This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.

quaff

English

Verb

(en verb)

To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.

* Shakespeare

quaffed off the muscadel

* Milton

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet / Quaff immortality and joy.

Quotations

{{timeline, 1500s=1594, 1600s=1667, 1800s=1845 1852}} * 1594 — Shakespeare, i 2 *: Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, / And quaff carouses to our mistress' health * 1667 — Book V *: They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet *: Quaff immortality and joy... * 1845 — *: Quaff', oh ' quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore! * 1852 — *: Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth, they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage.

Antonyms

* (wine terminology) food pairing

Noun

(en noun)

The act of quaffing, a deep draught.

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Synonyms

* chug * gulp * swig * See also