Quaff vs Sip - What's the difference?
quaff | sip |
To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The act of quaffing, a deep draught.
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To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
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, title= To drink a small quantity.
* (John Dryden)
To taste the liquor of; to drink out of.
* (John Dryden)
(Scotland, US, dated)
(Webster 1913)
As a verb quaff
is to drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts.As a noun quaff
is the act of quaffing, a deep draught.As a proper noun sip is
cyprus.As an adjective sip is
cypriot.quaff
English
Verb
(en verb)- quaffed off the muscadel
- 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 pairingNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* chug * gulp * swig * See alsosip
English
Verb
- He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
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- [She] raised it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping , offered to the next in place.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.