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skoal

skoal interjection: a toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.

Interjection

  1. A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.

Verb

skoal (third-person singular simple present skoals, present participle skoaling, simple past and past participle skoaled)

  1. To make such a toast.
    • With their aquavit the Scandinavians observe a lovely ritual called skoaling, or "toasting." Skoaling is more formal, however, than toasting is in our country. At a dinner party the host always skoals first.1971, Linda Wolfe, McCall's introduction to Scandinavian cooking, page 5

Forms of skoal

third-person singular presentskoals
present participleskoaling
past participleskoaled
pastskoaled

Origin of skoal

From Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål, which is used when making a toast and also means "bowl".

Questions about skoal

What does skoal mean?
Skoal means a toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.
What part of speech is skoal?
Skoal can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near skoal in the dictionary

  1. sklave
  2. sklaw
  3. Sklerov
  4. sklodowskite
  5. SKM
  6. skoal
  7. skoaled
  8. skoaling
  9. skoals
  10. Skobeloff green
  11. Skochilenko

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