Sc. Forms: 6 waucht, wacht, vacht, 9 wauch, 7–9 waught. [Of obscure origin; prob. allied to QUAFF, QUAUGHT vbs.] trans. To drink or quaff in large draughts; to drain (a goblet); also with out, over. Also absol. or intr.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 39. Thay wauchtit at the wicht wyne.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. iii. 90. In flacon and in skull Thai skynk the wyne, and wauchtis coupis full.
1567. Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 26. To wacht gude wyne.
1581. Satir. Poems Reform., xliv. 94. Except his coup var vachtit out aluay.
1624. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848), II. 391. That nane presume … to wse at any tyme any excessive drinking or scolling, or to vrge thair nichtbouris to waught or scole farder nor thair plesour.
1728. Ramsay, Archers diverting themselves, 100. How hearty went these healths about! How blythly were they waughted out! Ibid. (c. 1730), Masque, 193. I waught o’er This flowing glass of … wine.
1849. W. Jamie, Stray Effusions, 27 (E.D.D.). Packman billies waught their ale.
Hence Waughting vbl. sb.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 173. Excessive drinking and waughting.
1842. Vedder, Poems, 78. But now he’s a dyvor, wi’ birling an’ wauchin’.
