different between waucht vs yaucht
waucht
English
Alternative forms
- waught
Etymology
Compare quaff.
Noun
waucht (plural wauchts)
- (Scotland) A large draught of any liquid.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
- 1851, John Mackay Wilson, The Provost of Starvieston, Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland, Volume III, page 144,
- “Bring us a bottle, then.”
- “Bring twa,” here interrupted Johnny Yuill, in a loud voice; “for I?m dooms dry, and ?ll sen? owre a bottle to my ain share at a waucht, and I?m sure ye?ll manage the ither yersel, Provost; and, if ye canna, I?ll help ye wi? that, too.”
- 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour [aka Catriona], 2009, page 228,
- “But ye?ll be for a bite or ye go?” said he.
- “Neither bite nor sup,” said I. “I had a good waucht of milk in by Ratho.”
- 1898, John Buchan, 2008, John Burnet Of Barns, page 173,
- He was singin? and roarin? wi? the loudest, and takin? great wauchts frae the bowl, far mair than was guid for him.
Derived terms
- guid-willie waucht
- williewaught
Verb
waucht (third-person singular simple present wauchts, present participle wauchting, simple past and past participle wauchted)
- (obsolete) To drink, to quaff.
- 1834, Thomas Mollisone, Letter to R. Paip, James Maidment (editor), Analecta Scotica: Collections Illustrative of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of Scotland, page 302,
- Eftir this the Erles and thair kin passis to the Tolbuith, with the haill ministerie: all ar maid burgessis of this toun; the ministers with the rest. At euin[even], nathing bot wauchting.
- 1904, Thomas Finlayson Henderson, James I. and VI., page 135,
- […] while with Huntly, who in April 1599 had been created Marquis, the King now spent much of his time, “wauchting and drinking.”
- 2000, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Scottish Literary Journal, Volume 27, Issue 1, page 45,
- Scott, on the other hand, says of him that he ‘wauchted [quaffed] the bluid-reid liquor doun’.
- 1834, Thomas Mollisone, Letter to R. Paip, James Maidment (editor), Analecta Scotica: Collections Illustrative of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of Scotland, page 302,
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yaucht
English
Noun
yaucht (plural yauchts)
- Obsolete spelling of yacht
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