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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Drink Deep Drink a deep draught. The allusion is to the peg tankards. Those who drank deep, drank to the lower pegs. (See Peg.) "We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart." -Shakespeare: Hamlet. i. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I will make your neck my chalice and drink deep (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. |
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| Language | Translations for "DRINK DEEP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sokat iszik (to drink deep), fenekére néz a kancsónak (to drink deep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | inkdray eepday bea vârtos (booze, drink hard, drink heavily, drink like a fish). (various references) drachtio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-k-n-p-r" | |
-2 letters: kindred, prinked, reinked, repined, ripened. | |
-3 letters: denied, denier, depend, deride, dinked, dirked, indeed, kerned, kidder, kinder, kirned, nereid, peined, pended, perdie, perked, pinder, pinked, pinker, prided, redden, reined, rended, repine, ridden, rinded. | |
-4 letters: deked, diene, diked, diker, dined, diner, dreed, dried, drink, eider, ended, ender, inked, inker, irked, kerne, kneed, kreep, nided, pekin. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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