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Quoth vs Quaff - What's the difference?

quoth | quaff |

As verbs the difference between quoth and quaff

is that quoth is simple past of quethe; said while 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.

quoth

English

Verb

  • (archaic, or, literary) (quethe); said
  • * 19th century ,
    • “Pull, if ye never pull’d before;
    Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
  • * 1845
    • Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!
    Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:“Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow,” quoth Robin, “thou seemest happy this merry morn.”
  • *:“Ay, that am I,” quoth the jolly Butcher, “and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?”

    • 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