different between drinkie vs drinkle

English

Alternative forms

• drinky

Etymology

drink +? -ie (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

drinkie (plural drinkies)

1. (slang, informal or baby-talk) drink

Anagrams

• dinkier, kneriid

English

Alternative forms

• drenkle

Etymology

From Middle English drinklen, drinkelen, drenklen (“to plunge, drown”), from Old English *drenclian (“to drown”), frequentative form of Old English dren?an (“to give to drink, give drink to, drench, make drunk, ply with drink; soak, saturate; submerge, drown, plunge; sink”), equivalent to drink +? -le and drench +? -le. Compare dronkle, drunkle.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?l

Verb

drinkle (third-person singular simple present drinkles, present participle drinkling, simple past and past participle drinkled)

1. (transitive) To drink (an alcoholic beverage); also, to cause (someone) to drink such a beverage; to drench; to drown.
2. (intransitive) To drink an alcoholic beverage; also, to become intoxicated; to get drunk.
3. (intransitive) To drown.

Derived terms

• drinkling

Anagrams

• Kindler, kindler, red link, redlink