skol
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file)
Interjection
skol
- (originally and chiefly in Scotland) A drinking-toast; cheers.
- 1990, Alasdair Gray, ‘A Free Man with a Pipe’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), page 490:
- Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’
- 1990, Alasdair Gray, ‘A Free Man with a Pipe’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), page 490:
Verb
skol (third-person singular simple present skols, present participle skolling, simple past and past participle skolled)
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To down (a drink).
- 2010, Penelope Green, When in Rome: Chasing la dolce vita:
- When diners leave a quarter of a carafe full of house wine we put it above the sink to refill for new orders, but often I catch him skolling the remains of whatever he can get his hands on.
- 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur
- The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.
Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
skol f
Derived terms
Cornish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
skol f (plural skolyow)
Dalmatian
Etymology
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Noun
skol f
References
- Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
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Noun
skol
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