quaich

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kweɪx/, /kweɪk/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (Scottish) IPA^(key): /kwex/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kweɪx/, /kweɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪx

Noun

Quaich

quaich (plural quaichs or quaiches)

1. (Scotland, historical) A traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin symbolizing friendship. It was originally used to toast the arrival or departure of a visitor.
   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Third. The Hostel, or Inn.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza XXVIII, page 101:

     The quaighs were deep, the liquor strong, / And on the tale the yeoman throng, / Had made a comment sage and long, [...]

   • 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13:

     Every evening through all the summer Lampusa put out for them before her rock-hewn kitchen a silver quaich of milk; then she summoned the creatures with a low call.

2. (Scotland, by extension) Any two-handled drinking vessel or trophy.

Alternative forms

• quaigh
• quegh

Translations

traditional shallow, two-handled cup of Scottish origin

• Scottish Gaelic: cuach f