different between carouse vs birle

English

Etymology

From Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”). Compare German Garaus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /k???a?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Verb

carouse (third-person singular simple present carouses, present participle carousing, simple past and past participle caroused)

1. (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering. [from 1550s]

2. (intransitive) To drink to excess.

Derived terms

• carousal
• carrousel

Translations

Noun

carouse (plural carouses)

1. A large draught of liquor.
   • 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, page 4–5:

     […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe re?ted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carow?es in the great ?poon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]

   • 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued

2. A drinking match; a carousal.
   • 1835, Richard Gooch, Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack (page 25)

     PORSON […] would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.

References

Anagrams

• acerous

English

Alternative forms

• birl, byrl

Etymology

From Middle English birlen, from Old English byrelian (“to give or serve a drink to”), from byrele (“cup-bearer, steward, butler”), from Proto-Germanic *burilijaz (“carrier, manservant”), from *burjô (“descendant, son”), from *beran? (“to bear, carry”). Related to Old English byre (“son, offspring, youth”). More at bear.

Verb

birle (third-person singular simple present birles, present participle birling, simple past and past participle birled)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To pour a drink (for).
   • c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 68: "Young Hunting",

     She has birld in him Young Hunting / The good ale and the beer, / Till he was as fou drunken / As any wild-wood steer.

2. (Scotland, obsolete) To drink deeply or excessively; carouse.
   • c.1882-1898, Francis James Child (collector and editor), Child's Ballads, Number 73: "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet",

     They birled, they birled at Annies^[sic] wake / The white bread and the wine, / And ere the morn at that same time / At his they birled the same.

Anagrams

• Erbil, Liber., liber, libre

Spanish

Verb

birle

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of birlar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of birlar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of birlar.