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Definition of Quaffers
1. quaffer [n] - See also: quaffer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaffers
Literary usage of Quaffers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... of Kaats- kill, horrible quaffers of new cider, and arrant braggarts in their
liquor.—After them came the Van Pelts of Groodt Eso- pus, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"Alas, these days are sober, Trinity's old alumni: J For " small beer, that poor
creature," And nobody can come nigh Those quaffers of old October, ..."
3. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"The Muses shame to remember some fresh quaffers of Helicon : and which of the
Graces or Vertues ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... and pouring it out and calling so lustily for quaffers, before the grounds
had time to be settled, or the spirit to bo concentrated, or the flavour to ..."
5. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"... he was exciting high hopes of future distinction, when he died at Cologne in
1838. Among his best paintings are: Monks drinking. The Coffee quaffers. ..."
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