drink
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drink¹
- /ˈdɹɪŋk/
- [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷɪŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
- /ˈdɹiŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷiŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷiŋk]
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷɪ̝ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪ̝ŋk]
- /ˈdɹæŋk/
- [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷæŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷæŋk]
- /ˈdɹeɪ̯ŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ŋk]
- /ˈdɹɛ̃ŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷɛ̃ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɛ̃ŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognates include German trinken, Norwegian Bokmål drikke, and Italian trincare.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola drink (“to drink”), North Frisian drank, drainke, drink, drinke (“to drink”), West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Alemannic German trénge, trenhu, trinche, tringhien, trinke (“to drink”), Bavarian dringa, trinckn, trinkhn, trinkn (“to drink”), Cimbrian trinkan, trinkhan (“to drink”), Dutch and Low German drinken (“to drink”), German and Mòcheno trinken (“to drink”), Luxembourgish drénken (“to drink”), Yiddish טרינקען (trinken, “to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Elfdalian drikka (“to drink”), Faroese and Icelandic drekka (“to drink”), Jutish drenk (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka, drikke (“to drink”), Swedish dricka (“to drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan, “to drink”), Vandalic drincan (“to drink”), French trinquer (“to booze, drink alcohol”), Italian trincare (“to knock back (a drink)”), Spanish trincar (“to get drunk”).
verb drinks · drinking · drank · drunk · drinked
- To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. He drank the water I gave him.
- To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
- To consume alcoholic beverages. You've been drinking, haven't you?
- To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. Let the purple violets drink the stream.
- To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
- To toast (someone or something) with a drink, honour; to wish well (see drink to), especially Drink to lofty hopes that cool — Visions of a perfect State : Drink we, last, the public fool, Frantic love and frantic hate.
- To express one's desire for the accomplishment of a toast, sentiment or event, to wish, hope (for), forward (especially as 'to drink the health (of someone)'). At the same time were great Acclamations & they drunk Damnation to Dʳ. Sacheverell, Mʳ Tilly, and all the Dʳˢ friends.
- [with to ‘someone or something’] Had our great Pall ace the capacity To Campe this hoſt, we all would ſup together, And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate Which promiſes Royall perill, Trumpetters With brazen dinne blaſt you the Cittics eare, Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines, That heauen and earth may ſtrike their ſounds
- To smoke, as tobacco. And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.
- Used in phrasal verbs: drink down, drink in, drink off, drink out, drink to, drink up.
Similar: drink, hydrate, imbibe, wet one's whistle, wet one's beak
drink²
- /ˈdɹɪŋk/
- [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷɪŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
- /ˈdɹiŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷiŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷiŋk]
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷɪ̝ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɪ̝ŋk]
- /ˈdɹæŋk/
- [ˈd͡ɹ̝ʷæŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷæŋk]
- /ˈdɹeɪ̯ŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷeɪ̯ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ŋk]
- /ˈdɹɛ̃ŋk/
- [d͡ɹ̝ʷɛ̃ŋk] ~ [ˈd̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷɛ̃ŋk]
Rhymes with -ɪŋk
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *drinkaną
Proto-Germanic *drunkiz
Proto-West Germanic *drunki
Old English drynċ
Middle English drink
English drink
From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dronk (“drink”), Cimbrian gatrànkh (“drink”), Dutch drank, dronk (“drink”), German Getränk, trank, Trunk (“drink”), German Low German Drank, Drunk (“drink”), Vilamovian gytrenḱ (“drink”), Danish drik (“drink, beverage”), Icelandic drykkur (“drink, beverage”), Norwegian Bokmål drikk (“drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikk, drykk (“drink, alcohol”), Swedish dryck (“drink”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌺 (draggk), 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌺 (dragk, “drink”).
noun drinks · dhrink · drank · drinck · drinke · dink
- A beverage. What kind of drink would you like? We have soft drinks and hard drinks.
- Drinks in general; something to drink. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
- A type of beverage (usually mixed). My favourite drink is the White Russian.
- A (served) alcoholic beverage. Can I buy you a drink?
- The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have. He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
- Alcoholic beverages in general. She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
- A standard drink. A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
- Any body of water. If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
- A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain. Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the r
- Amount. He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.
