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quaffed

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Drank deeply, heartedly, or greedily; a term associated with festive drinking, hearty feasts, and celebratory verse.

Detailed Definition
This is a literary or somewhat old-fashioned verb meaning to drink a liquid heartily. In the poem, the Judge says Maud’s water was “never quaffed,” using a more elevated word than the everyday “drank.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“Quaffed” is the past tense of quaff, meaning drank heartily or deeply, often in a celebratory setting; Carroll writes, “a sweeter draught / From a fairer hand was never quaffed,” using mock-formal praise; Keats’s “O for a beaker full of the warm South” imagines drinking as escape into sensuous abundance; A modern line, “They quaffed iced tea after the march,” can use the elevated verb humorously
Additional Notes
The verb “quaffed” in the quoted line is a literary word that many modern readers would not use in ordinary speech.; Found in the poem, Maud Muller by John Greenleaf Whittier
Also Known As
drank imbibed sipped guzzled
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