Drink

DRINK, v. and sb.1 Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. I. v. Gram. forms. 1. Present Tense: (1) Dhrink, (2) Dreyngk, (3) Drunk, (4) Drynk. (1) Lan. Never bin use't to dhrinkin', Brierley Layrock (1864) iii. (2) m.Yks.1 Introd. 34. (3) w.Yks. I'll drunk it w'ile I'm undressing (F.P.T.). (4) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. 2. Preterite: (1) Drak, (2) Drenk, (3) Drenked, (4) Drinked, (5) Dronk, (6) Druck, (7) Drunk. (1) Nhb.1 (2) w.Yks. Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 132. (3) Brks. How much they vour drenked, Hughes Scour. White Horse (1859) vii. (4) w.Som. Elworthy Gram. (1877) 46. Dev. He niver zaid much about it, more than to axe us why us drink'd more than did us gude, Burnett Stable Boy (1888) xxvii. [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 277.] (5) Cum. Lang she dronk, an' lood she gruntit, Gilpin Ballads (1874) 3rd S. 92. m.Yks.1 D'raongk, Introd. 34. (6) Nhb.1 He druck half a gallon at a sittin. (7) m.Yks.1 Druongk, Introd. 34. s.Chs.1 Drùngk, 80. 3. Pp.: (1) Dhrunken, (2) Drank, (3) Drinked, (4) Dronken, (5) Drucken, (6) Druckin, (7) Druken, (8) Drukken, (9) Drunk, (10) Drunken. See Drucken, Druffen. (1) e.Yks.1 (2) Ayr. They hae ta'en his very heart's blood And drank it, Burns John Barleycorn (1781) st. 12. (3) n.Wil. I've a drinked my wine wi' my milk, Kite Sng. Sol. (1860) v. I. Som. I have drink'd moi woine wi' moi mulk, Baynes Sng. Sol. w.Som. Elworthy Gram. (1877) 46. [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 277.] (4) m.Yks.1 D'raongk·u'n, Introd. 34. (5) Sc. Neither kens nor cares what toasts are drucken, Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) xxiii; Speak when ye're spoken to, Drink when ye're drucken to, Chambers Pop. Rhymes (1870) 145. N.Cy.1 He has drucken the maltman's ale, Jacobite Sng. Nhb. But the water he'd drucken it wadn't run oot, Monthly Chron. n.Cy. Lore (1887) 39; Nhb.1 He's drucken byeth cow an' calf, Prov. Cum. They'd drucken like fiddlers in common, Gilpin Sngs. (1866) 388. (6) Nhb. Aw've druckin maw wine wi' maw milk, Robson Sng. Sol. (1859) v. I; When Booz hid eatin' an' druckin his fill, ROBSON Beuk Ruth (1860) iii. 7. (7) Nhb. They've druken ale and brandy, Allan Coll. Tyneside Sngs. (1891) 8. m.Yks.1 Druok·u'n, Introd. 34. w.Yks. Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 132. (8) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. Sh.I. Whin A'm drukken mi cup, Sh. News (Oct. 9, 1897). Wm. Thaed teean an selt em an drukk'n t'brass, Spec. Dial. (1877) pt. i. 17. (9) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. (10) Sc. It is just the idle, feckless bodies getting drunken that gives it a bad name, Steel Rowans (1895) 82. e.Yks. Ah've drunken it, Wray Nestleton (1876) 303. m.Yks.1 D'ruongk·u'n, Introd. 34. w.Yks. I'm dhry, I've drunken all my tea up (F.P.T.). s.Chs.1 80. II. Dial. uses. 1. v. To cause to drink, to drench. n.Lin.1 As soon as iver I get hoäm I shall drink all th' lambs. Nhp., Shr. Northall Flk-Phr. (1894). [Amer. Go drink them oxen, Dial. Notes (1896) I. 7, 277.] 2. With out: to drink off, swallow the contents of; to exhaust. Sc. Drink out your glass, Monthly Mag. (1800) I. 323; A' Saunders's gin, puir man, was drucken out at the burial o' Steenie, Scott Antiquary (1816) xl. n.Cy. (J.W.) 3. phr. (1) to drink before some one, to anticipate some one in what they were about to say; (2) drink some one, to drink the health of some one. (1) Sc. ‘You will drink before me,’ you have said just what I was going to say, which is a token that you'll get the first drink, Kelly Prov. (1721) 388. (2) Ayr. They filled lippies, and in solemn silence drank their auld frien' for the last time, Galt Lairds (1826) iii. 4. sb. In Comp. (1) Drink-draught, a brewer's dray with the horses that draw it; (2) Drink-driver, the driver of a brewer's dray; (3) Drink-house, a building where beer or cider is kept; a small out-house; (4) Drink-lean, an entertainment given by the lord of the manor; (5) Drink-meat, ale boiled, thickened with oatmeal, and spiced; (6) Drink-silver, drink-money, a perquisite, vail; also used fig. (1) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, m.Yks.1 (2) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 (3) w.Yks. (J.J.B.), se.Wor.1, s.Wor.1 Glo. The room was built over the drink-us (S.S.B.); (A.B.); Glo.1 (4) Lan. From these entertainments being supported by the contributions of the tenants, they were derisively called Drink-leans, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 288. (5) Shr. Bound Provinc. (1876); Shr.1 The cowman's got a despert bad coud; I'll mak' 'im a stodger o' drink-mate fur 'is supper, an' gie 'im a good swat; Shr.2 (6) Sc. Grose (1790) MS. add. (C.); Drink siller is still the vulgar designation and pronunciation (Jam.). Kcb. I cannot get a house in this town wherein to leave drink-silver in my Master's name, save one only, Rutherford Lett. (1660) No. 122. 5. phr. (1) In drink, drunk; (2) no small drink, fig. of considerable importance, of no little consequence; (3) out of drink, sober, not intoxicated; (4) sale-drink, liquor handed round free at a sale for the general refreshment; (5) to get the liver drink, to be at death's door, to be nearly dead; (6) to have had some drink, to be the worse for drink, but not absolutely drunk. (1) Ayr. I canna see the sense o' swearin' ava, either in drink or oot o' drink, Johnston Glenbuckie (1889) 17. Chs.1 (2) Abd. Helen's nae sma' drink; It's nae to ilka chiel she'll gie her niece, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 117. Dmb. Mrs. Renshaw thought herself ‘nae sma' drink’ when the Laird himself gave her his arm, Cross Disruption (1844) iv. Edb. Thinking themselves, I dare say, no small drink, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) xiv; Our Johnny's nae sma' drink you'll guess, Fergusson Poems (1773) 167, ed. 1785. Slk. Davie was nae sma' drink, Hogg Tales (1838) 47, ed. 1866. (3) Ayr. I canna see the sense o' swearin' ava, either in drink or oot o' drink, Johnston Glenbuckie (1889) 17. (4) Cum. No lower depth of meanness can be touched than that bottomed by the man who attends for the sake of this without buying or even bidding (J.Ar.). (5) Sh.&Ork.1 Dou's gotten dy liver drink. (6) Chs.3 ‘He had had some drink,’ one of our commonest expressions. 6. Beer, ale; beer in the process of fermentation. w.Yks. Let's hev a pint o' drink, missis, Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865); (J.T.); E one corner theare wor a tub wi some drink workin in, Dewsbre Olm. (1865) 14; w.Yks.1 ‘Thin drink’ is small beer; w.Yks.5 Nobbud hed a pint o' drink for a week. Which is t'better sleck, ─ drink ur watter? Lan. Thou con always find friends when thou wants a sope o' drink, Brierley Insuring (1886) 13; On wawtit him o'er into th' Gal keer, ful o new drink wortching, Tim Bobbin View Dial. (1746) 35. Midl. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) II. nw.Der.1, War. (J.R.W.), War.2 Shr.1 Common. ‘Whad sort o' drink dun they keep at that public?’ ‘Well, nuthin' to brag on; it wunna much better than fresh-drink the las' time as I wuz theer’; Shr.2 A small jug'le o' drink. Glo. (A.B.); Glo.1 It's a drop of very good drink; Glo.2 Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). w.Som.1 Very common. Wút av-u draap u dringk ur u draap u suy·dur? [Wilt have a drop of ale or a drop of cider?] Cider is never called ‘drink.’ V-ee guut koa·ldurz nuuf t-oa·l dhu dringk? [Have you coolers enough to hold the wort?] 7. Cider. War. (J.R.W.), Glo. (A.B.), Glo.1 Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). Som. W. & J. Gl. (1873). 8. A drench, draught of medicine for horses or cattle. Chs.1 ‘I'll send her a drink’ says the farrier when he comes to prescribe for a cow. n.Lin.1 War. Leamington Courier (Mar. 6, 1897); War.2, s.War.1 Sus.1 I gave the old cow a drink last night, and she's up again and looking eversmuch better this morning. Hence Drink-horn, sb. the left horn of a cow, by aid of which a drench is given to horses and cows. n.Lin.1 9. pl. Refreshments between meals. Cf. drinking. w.Yks. Scatcherd Hist. Morley (1830) Gl.; w.Yks.5 Gehring

his drinks.

DRINK, sb.2 Sc. [driŋk.] A lanky, overgrown person. Per. ‘He's gotten a lang drink o' a wife.’ Not uncommon (G.W.). Ayr. Stair had grown up into a great lang drink, and would fankled, as Robin Cummell said, if he fell, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) xvi. [Norw. dial. areng, a young lad, a man just grown up (Aasen); ON. drengr, a young unmarried man; cp. Norw. dial.

drengkall, an unmarried man.]

DRINK, v.2 Abd. To shrink, draw together, become shorter. The day's drinkin' in a gweed bit, Abd. Wkly. Free Press (Sept. 12, 1903).