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carouse - 6 dictionary results
ca⋅rouse
[kuh-rouz] 
verb, -roused, -rous⋅ing, noun –verb (used without object)
| 1. | to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night. |
| 2. | to drink deeply and frequently. |
–noun
| 3. | carousal. |
Origin:
1550–60; var. of garouse < G gar aus (trinken) (to drink) fully out, i.e. drain the cup; cf. MF carous < dial. G gar ūs
1550–60; var. of garouse < G gar aus (trinken) (to drink) fully out, i.e. drain the cup; cf. MF carous < dial. G gar ūs
Related forms:
ca⋅rous⋅er, noun
ca⋅rous⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
1. revel, celebrate, drink; live it up.
1. revel, celebrate, drink; live it up.
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| ca·rouse (kə-rouz') intr.v. ca·roused, ca·rous·ing, ca·rous·es
[German garaus, all out, drink up : gar, completely (from Middle High German, from Old High German garo) + aus, out, up; see auslander.] ca·rous'er n. Word History: The origin of the word carouse can be found in a German interjection that meant "time to leave the bar." German garaus, which is derived from the phrase gar ("all") aus ("out"), meaning "all out," then came to mean "drink up, bottoms up," and "a last drink before closing time." The English borrowed this noun, with the meaning "the practice of sitting around drinking until closing time," sometimes spelling the word garaus but usually spelling it closer to the way it is spelled today. Soon after the word is first recorded as a noun in 1559, we find the verb carouse, in 1567. |
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Carouse
Ca*rouse"\ (k[.a]*rouz"), n. [F. carrousse, earlier carous, fr. G. garaus finishing stroke, the entire emptying of the cup in drinking a health; gar entirely + aus out. See Yare, and Out.]1. A large draught of liquor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." --Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. --Shak. 2. A drinking match; a carousal. The early feast and late carouse. --Pope.Carouse
Ca*rouse"\ v. t. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [Archaic] Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. --Denham. Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. --Young.
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Language Translation for : carouse
Spanish:
ir de juerga, ir de parranda,
German:
zechen,
Japanese:
飲み騒ぐ
carouse
1567, from M.Fr. carousser "drink, quaff, swill," from Ger. gar aus "quite out," from gar austrinken "to drink up entirely."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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