willie-waught

English

Etymology

From a misunderstanding of the syntax of the line "we'll tak a right guid-willie waught" in Robert Burns' 1788 poem Auld Lang Syne.

Noun

willie-waught (plural willie-waughts)

  1. A large swig of drink.
    • 1854, The Knickerbocker, volume 44, page 194:
      We were just pledging each other in a brimming saucer of the beverage, and expressing loudly our determination to imbibe a willie-waught, when […]

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