old toast

English

Noun

old toast (plural old toasts)

1. (slang, obsolete) A lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
   • 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 […], →OCLC, page 306:

     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! &c.

References

• Jonathon Green (2024) “old toast n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• “toast, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.