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# reminds me of a pratchett line
'when they would younger they would go down to the riverbank and spoon*.

*and sometimes fork.'
(martian, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:50, archived)
# he also have a word for drinking and spilling most of it.
i keep forgetting that word..
(I helped save b3ta! bumblebee.. I am not a number! I am a free snail!, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:53, archived)
# quaf?
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:54, archived)
# that's common usage
(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:56, archived)
# maenings that never had words before
Meaning of Liff
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:05, archived)
# YES!
thank you!
i was thinking guffaw.. but that is more like a swallowed laugh right?
(I helped save b3ta! bumblebee.. I am not a number! I am a free snail!, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 12:57, archived)
# Guffaw is to laugh very loudly
usually in a hearty manner.

Quaff is to drink in a similarly hearty manner. Think mediaeval banquets.
(I helped save b3ta! bob dinosaur, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:05, archived)
# quaff
is where you throw the entire contents of the pint pot at your face and just swallow as much as lands in your gob.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:08, archived)
# so..
..like an ordinary evening at the pub? eh? ;)
(I helped save b3ta! bumblebee.. I am not a number! I am a free snail!, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:13, archived)
# quaffing
is like drinking only you spill more (Pratchett's definition)
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 20:53, archived)
# Think Brian Blessed,
he probably quaffs and guffaws like a good 'un.
(tomsk, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:10, archived)
# Damn
good example there mr tomsk.
(I helped save b3ta! bob dinosaur, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:12, archived)
# he stabs his knife into the table
and guffaws "More mead wench!"
(I helped save b3ta! adverse_camber, Tue 14 Jan 2003, 13:16, archived)