quaff
verb (used without object)
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
quaffs
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present tense formof quaff (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Patent absurdity, of course, as much then as now — no matter how many 3D-printed organs we churn out, how long we extend our telomeres, nor how many quaffs of plasma we down.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
In other Trump paintings on view, Saul paints the president’s blonde quaffs floating around a canvas.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2020
Before the quaffs of Champagne, though, I had to do some legwork.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
Other popular quaffs of the day had names such as “Rattle-skull and Bombo, Cherry Bounce and Whistlebelly Vengeance.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
And thou, fair Lake, whose water quaffs The light of heaven like Lydia's sea, Rejoice, rejoice—let all that laughs Abroad, at home, laugh out for me!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
