carouse
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle French carousser (“to quaff, drink, swill”), from German gar aus (literally “all out, quite out”), from gar austrinken (“to drink up entirely, guzzle”).[1] Compare German Garaus.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editcarouse (third-person singular simple present carouses, present participle carousing, simple past and past participle caroused)
- (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering. [from 1550s]
- We are all going to carouse at Brian's tonight.
- (intransitive or transitive) To drink to excess.
- If I survive this headache, I promise no more carousing at Brian’s.
- 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 7:
- […] the cup-bearers did fill great gems made in form of cups with ancient wine, and the Demons caroused to Lord Juss deep draughts in honour of this day of his nativity.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editTo engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering
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To drink to excess
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Noun
editcarouse (plural carouses)
- A large draught of liquor.
- 1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, pages 4–5:
- […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:
- Had our great Pallace the capacity
To Campe this hoaſt, we all would ſup together,
And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate […]
- 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
- […] he hadde ſo many eyes watching ouer him, as he coulde not drinke a full Carouſe of Sacke, but the State was aduertised thereof, within few houres after.
- A drinking bout; a carousal.
- 1725, Homer, “Book II”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
- The early feast and late carouse.
- 1835, Richard Gooch, Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack, page 25:
- PORSON […] would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.
References
edit- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “carouse”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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