drink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭngk
ipa: /dɹɪŋk/
ipa: [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: drinks
form: drinking
form: drank
form: drunk
form: drinked
form: drunk
form: drunken
form: drank
form: drinked
form: drinken
form: dranken
form: dhrink
form: drank
form: drinck
form: drinke
form: thrink
Etymology: From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch, Low German drinken (“to drink”), German, Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese, Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: He drank the water I gave him.
text: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
text: […] There liues ſhee with the bleſſed Gods in bliſſe: / There drinks the Nectar with Ambroſia mixt […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 47, recto:
text: It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.
ref: 1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 283:
text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: gulp
imbibe
quaff
sip
see Thesaurus:drink
glosses: To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
examples: text: Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
glosses: To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
examples: text: You've been drinking, haven't you?
text: No thanks, I don't drink.
text: Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.
text: I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:
text: You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
ref: 2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Roger Sterling:
synonyms: drink alcohol
booze#Verb
glosses: To consume alcoholic beverages.
examples: text: Let the purple violets drink the stream.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
examples: text: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: to drink the cooler air
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
examples: text: Drink to lofty hopes that cool —
Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool,
Frantic love and frantic hate.
ref: 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in The Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1884, →OCLC, part iv, page 131:
glosses: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially
examples: text: At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to Dʳ. Sacheverell, Mʳ Tilly, and all the Dʳˢ friends.
ref: 1710, Thomas Hearne, Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne:
text: I ought not to have neglected a request of one of my correspondents so long as I have; but I dare say I have given him time to add practice to profession. He sent me some time ago a bottle or two of excellent wine to drink the health of a gentleman had by the penny post advertised him of an egregious error in his conduct. […]
ref: 1712 December 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “FRIDAY, December 19, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 433; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
To express one's desire for the accomplishment of a toast, sentiment or event, to wish, hope (for), forward (especially as 'to drink the health (of someone)').
examples: text: Had our great Pall ace the capacity
To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together,
And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate
Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters
With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare,
Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines,
That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds together,
Applauding our approach.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii], pages 360-361, columns 2-1:
glosses: To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially:
[with to ‘someone or something’]
info_templates: extra_data: words: to
‘someone
something’
expansion: [with to ‘someone or something’]
raw_tags: with carouse
examples: text: And some men now live ninety yeeres and past,
Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.
ref: 1630, Taylor, John ("The Water Poet", 1578–1653), A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration:
glosses: To smoke, as tobacco.
glosses: Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
Synonyms: word: drink
word: hydrate
word: imbibe
word: wet one's whistle
word: wet one's beak
Hypernyms: word: ingest
Hyponyms: word: drink quickly
word: chug
word: chugalug
word: down
word: drink off
word: gulp
word: gulp down
word: guzzle
word: knock back
word: pound
word: put away
word: quaff
word: scull
word: skol
word: slam
word: slug
word: swig
word: swill
word: swizzle
word: toss
word: drink slowly
word: nurse
word: sip
word: other
word: absorb
word: lap
word: slurp
word: suck
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: bedrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: day-drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drincc
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinkability
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinkable
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink and drive
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinkathon
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink down
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinker
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink from a firehose
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink from the fire hydrant
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink from the furry cup
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink in
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinking
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinking-cup
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinking straw
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinking water
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinkle
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink like a fish
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink off
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink oneself to death
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink one's own Kool-Aid
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink out
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink someone under the table
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink something like lemonade
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink the Kool-Aid
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink to
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink under
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink under the table
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink up
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drinkware
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drink with the flies
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: drive someone to drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: I'll drink to that
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: nondrinking
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: outdrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: overdrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: piss more than one drinks
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: preach water and drink wine
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: ready-to-drink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: redrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: undrink
sense: Terms derived from drink (verb)
word: undrinkability
Related terms: word: drunken
word: drunk
word: dranken
word: beverage
word: eat
word: drinkable
word: drinkware
word: mouthful