DRINKING TOAST – INTERJECTIONS
1651 — TOPE! an exclamation used in drinking → obs.
..L18 — NO DAYLIGHT! a drinking toast (daylight is the space left in a glass between the top of the liquor and the rim; such a space is not allowed when drinking bumpers) → sl.
1896 — HERE’S HOW! a drinking toast
1909 — CHIN CHIN! a drinking toast
1919 — CHEERIO! a drinking toast → Brit.
1919 — CHEERO! a toast or salutation before drinking
1925 — BUNG-HO! → BUNGO! a drinking toast
1927 — HERE’S MUD IN YOUR EYE! a drinking toast
1930 — CHEERS! a toast or salutation before drinking
1938 — OKOLE MALUNA! a drinking toast; cheers! bottoms up! → Hawaii
1945 — HOW! a drinking toast; ‘here’s to your health’ → World War I Amer. sl.
1980 — BACK OF THE NET! a drinking toast; an encouragement to drink or eat → sl.
1999 — IN YOU GO, SAYS BOB MUNRO! a drinking toast → NZ sl.
DRINKING TOAST – NOUNS
1594 — CAROUSE a cupful drunk ‘all out’, a full draught of liquor, a full bumper to one’s health, a toast → obs.
1600 — SKOAL a health in drinking; a toast
1611 — HEALTHING the drinking of healths; toasting → obs.
1629 — SCOLL → SKOLE the drinking of healths; a toast → Sc.
1670 — BUMPER a cup or glass of alcoholic drink filled to the brim for a toast
1878 — UMBRELLAS an honour paid to a person by drinking his health and then inverting the glasses → Sc. & Eng. dial.
DRINKING TOAST – NOUNS, PERSON
1640 — HEALTHIST a person who is addicted to drinking healths → obs.
DRINKING TOAST – VERBS
1275 — HAIL to drink a health to → obs.
1583 — CAROUSE to drink health to
1598 — SKOAL to drink healths → Sc. obs.
1599 — SCOLL to drink to the health of, to toast → Sc.
1633 — HEALTH IT to drink a health or healths → obs.
1766 — RESPECT to drink the health of → Sc.
1792 — SAVE A LADY to drink a toast to → Sc.
1905 — MARL A MAN to cheer a man after drinking his health → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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