transitive + intransitive
: to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously At Fort William, goods were exchanged, bills were tallied, brandy was quaffed, songs were sung. Will Ferguson Young Cheltenham ladies and gentlemen in striped shirts and Barbours quaffed their drinks and guffawed loudly. John Ayto … quaff a flagon of nut-brown ale … William Thackeray … curled up on her couch, wearing lounge pants, quaffing her third glass of wine … Nathan Heller … and in the chimney-corner, they all four quaffed, and smoked, and prosed, and dozed, as they had done of old. Charles Dickens … quaffing from massive steins of German beer while chatting it up with new friends. Jeanne Potter quaffing adjective It's a quaffing [=quaffable] wine, one that you drink rather than sip attentively as you might a more complex red … Barbara Ensrud