drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭngk
ipa: /dɹɪŋk/
ipa: [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: drinks
form: dhrink
form: drank
form: drinck
form: drinke
form: thrink
Etymology: From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dronk (“drink”), Cimbrian gatrànkh (“drink”), Dutch drank, dronk (“drink”), German Getränk, trank, Trunk (“drink”), German Low German Drank, Drunk (“drink”), Vilamovian gytrenḱ (“drink”), Danish drik (“drink, beverage”), Icelandic drykkur (“drink, beverage”), Norwegian Bokmål drikk (“drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikk, drykk (“drink, alcohol”), Swedish dryck (“drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “drink”).
Senses: examples: text: I’d like another drink please.
glosses: A beverage.
examples: text: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:35:
glosses: Drinks in general; something to drink.
examples: text: My favourite drink is the White Russian.
glosses: A type of beverage (usually mixed).
examples: text: Can I buy you a drink?
hypernyms: beverage
glosses: A (served) alcoholic beverage.
examples: text: He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
glosses: The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
examples: text: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: By the late twenties father has died of drink and his wife is left to raise their two sons.
ref: 1979 February 10, Michael Bronski, “An American Dream”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 11:
text: 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 the drink again.
ref: 1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man, performed by Bruce McCulloch:
text: […] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
ref: 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]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alcoholic beverages in general.
examples: text: A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
text: And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?
ref: 1963, Vital and Health Statistics: Programs and collection procedures, page 125:
glosses: A standard drink.
examples: text: If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
text: 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 the drink 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.
ref: 1996, John French+, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 99:
text: 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 the drink, splashing around.
ref: 2011, Levi Johnston, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:
text: If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.
ref: 2012, Jack R. Myers, Shot at and Missed: Recollections of a World War II Bombardier, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: Any body of water.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: 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 a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].
ref: 2023 April 13, 07:56 am (UTC+10/AEST), in News Breakfast, season 2023, episode 74, spoken by Nate Byrne, Melbourne, Australia: ABC News:
glosses: A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
Synonyms: sense: served beverage
word: beverage
word: beverage
sense: served alcoholic beverage
word: beverage
word: alcoholic beverage
sense: action of drinking
word: gulp
sense: action of drinking
word: sip
sense: action of drinking
word: swig
sense: type of beverage
word: beverage
sense: alcoholic beverages in general
word: alcohol
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: antidrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: B-drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: be the worse for drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: black drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: call drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: can I buy you a drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: cold drink money
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: cooldrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: dew-drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drank
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink alert
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink-driver
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink-driving
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkery
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkfest
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink hail
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkie
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkless
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink link
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkmaking
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkologist
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkometer
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink problem
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink run
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinks cabinet
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink shop
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinksie
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinks o'clock
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinks table
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinks trolley
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkstuff
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinks waiter
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink table
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drink walking
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkwater
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: Drinkwater
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drinkworthy
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: drive to drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: energy drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: fizzy drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: fountain drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: functional drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: gangly drink of water
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: hard drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: have drink taken
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: hold one's drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: in drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: interdrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: in the drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: long drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: long drink of water
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: meat and drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: medium drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: mixed drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: orange drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: pre-drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: predrinks
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: pre-drinks
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: rail drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: red drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: scrawny drink of water
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: short drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: skinny drink of water
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: soft drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: sports drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: standard drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: straw that stirs the drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: strong drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: Swedish drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: table drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: take to drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: tall drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: tall drink of water
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
english: nickname for various bodies of water
translation: nickname for various bodies of water
word: the big drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: the drinks are on me
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: top-heavy with drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (noun)
word: well drink