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# quaff

«quaff» in Mova's school dictionary: **to drink something quickly and deeply, in big gulps** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (quaffs, quaffed, quaffing) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

To quaff is to drink something quickly and deeply, in big gulps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories heroes and guests quaff cups of wine or ale, meaning drink them with joy

### examples

- Quaff this cup of cold water, lad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/#x1)
- The knight quaffed the mug in one go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/#x2)
- We quaffed lemonade on the hot day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/#x3)
- Let us quaff a cup together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «quaff» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Q/quaff/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.