carouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce carouse in British English:
UK [kəˈraʊz]
How to pronounce carouse in American English:
US [kəˈraʊz]
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- Noun:
- revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
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- Verb:
- engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making
Word Origin
- carouse
- carouse: [16] Etymologically, carouse means to drink something up ‘completely’. Originally it was an adverb, used in phrases such as drink carouse (‘the tiplinge sottes at midnight which to quaffe carouse do use’, Thomas Drant, Horace’s Epigrams 1567). These were a partial translation of German trinken garaus, in which garaus is a compound adverb made up of gar ‘completely, all’ and aus ‘out’.
- carouse (v.)
- 1550s, from Middle French carousser "drink, quaff, swill," from German gar aus "quite out," from gar austrinken; trink garaus "to drink up entirely." Frequently also as an adverb in early English usage (to drink carouse).
Example
- 1. The way I like you , it is like playing carouse .
- 2. Rival grade of distinguished personages of mountain villa of shellfish buddha benefit , have a contest of barbecue , carouse , bridge , private collect a house .
- 3. No wonder they drink , smoke , fright , carouse and otherwise engage in social behavior .
- 4. No wonder they drink , smoke , fright , carouse and otherwise engage in inappropriate social behavior .
- 5. They drink , smoke , fright , carouse and otherwise engage in inappropriate social behavior .