gob); boissonner (popular); se rafraîchir les barres (popular); buvailler (popular); chauffer le four (= to guzzle); se dessaler (specifically to take an eye-opener); écoper (= to bale a boat); écraser une bouteille (= to crack a bottle: écraser un grain = to drink a dram); s'enflaneller (= to take a night-cap); s'éclairer le fanal (= to light-up); se machaber (popular); étouffer une mitrailleuse (popular: cf. boire un canon); se mouiller (Rabelais); se rincer le moule à blagues (= to moisten the chaffer); étouffer, éreinter une, or éternuer sur, une negresse (= to crack a bottle); se passer quelque chose sous le nez (= to crook the elbow); s'humecter le pavilion (= to dip one's flag: also pavillonner); s'en pousser dans le battant, le cornet, le fusil, etc. (common); s'humecter le pectoral (familiar); picter (cf. Gr. [Greek: piein]); pier (old); pitancher (popular); se rincer or se gargariser l'avaloir, le bec, le bocal, la gargoine, la corne, la cornemuse, le cornet, la dalle, la dalle du cou, la dent, le fusil, le goulot, le gaviot, le sifflet, le tube, la trente-deuxième, la gargarousse (popular); fioler (familiar); flúter (popular); s'en fourrer dans le gilet (= to line one's waistcoat); se rincer la gargoine (thieves'); se gargariser le rossignolet (= to gargle one's nightingale); prendre un coup de gaz (common); se laver le gosier (popular); s'emplir le gilet (popular); sucer un glace (= to take an ice); glouglouter (popular); jouer du, or se rincer, le goulot (= to wash one's throat); se graisser les roues (= to grease one's wheels); siffler le guindal (common); pomper les huiles (huile = wine; huile blonde = beer); s'humecter les amygdales (popular); s'imbiber le jabot (popular); faire jambe de vin (old); se laver les yeux (= to take an eye-opener); se laver le tuyau (popular); licher (familiar = to swill); litronner (of wine only); renifler (popular); sabler (common = to shift); sécher (popular); se calfater le bec (common); se blinder (popular); se suiver; sucer (popular); siroter (common); soiffer (popular = to load in); s'en taper; téter; zinguer (= to drink at a bar).
German synonyms. Ausschassjenen (Heb. schoso); bacheln (Fr. bocal; also pecheln and picheln); bafen (from Lat. bibere); schasjenen (Heb. schoso: also schaskenen); schöchem.
Italian synonyms. Tirar l'alzana; stibbiare; scabbiare; ventare; chiarire.
Spanish synonyms. Echar una limpia (= to take a peg); champurrar; churrupear; palabrar; remojar.
Portuguese synonym. Piar.
1819. Vaux, Memoirs, p. 188, s.v. Lush, to drink; speaking of a person who is drunk they say, Alderman Lushington is concerned, or he has been voting for the Alderman.
1821. Haggart, Life, 18. We had lushed the coachman so neatly that Barney was obliged to drive.
1830. Sir E. B. Lytton, Paul Clifford, p. 47, ed. 1854. 'Vy, I had been lushing heavy vet—' 'Till you grew light in the head, eh and fell into the kennel.' 'Yes.'
1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xxvi The richest sort you ever lushed.
