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old toast

old toast noun: a lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.

Noun

old toast (plural old toasts)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
    • How often muſt I be put to the Bluſh too, when every old Toaſt ſhall be calling me Old Acquaintance, and telling me, Oh Sir, 'tis many a fair Day ſince you and I knew one Another firſt. I think 'twas in the four and thirtieth of the Queen, that we were School-fellows. How the World's alter'd ſince!...1667, Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in R[oger] L[’Estrange], transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, […], London: […] H[enry] Herringman...

Forms of old toast

pluralold toasts

Questions about old toast

What does old toast mean?
Old toast means a lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
What part of speech is old toast?
Old toast is a noun.
What is the plural of old toast?
The plural of old toast is old toasts.

Words near old toast in the dictionary

  1. old timer's disease
  2. old timers
  3. old timers' disease
  4. old times
  5. old timey
  6. old toast
  7. old toasts
  8. Old Tom
  9. Old Toongabbie
  10. old top
  11. old town

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