skol

See also: skól, skål, and škôl

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skål.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /skɒl/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

Interjection

skol

1. (originally and chiefly in Scotland) A drinking-toast; cheers.
   • 1990, Alasdair Gray, “A Free Man with a Pipe”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 490:

     Again they notice he has impressed her and again he grows more cheerful, clinking his glass against hers and saying ‘Skol!’

Verb

skol (third-person singular simple present skols, present participle skolling, simple past and past participle skolled)

1. (intransitive) To drink a toast; to drink deeply.
   • 1928, Hart Crane, letter, 27 March:

     Many bottle of dubious gin and whiskey—with much “skoling”—Emil flashing a fat payroll—and treating three or four still more dubious “merry andrews” who had invited themselves to our noisy nook.

2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To drink the entire contents of a drinking vessel without pausing.
   • 2010, Penelope Green, When in Rome: Chasing la dolce vita:

     When diners leave a quarter of a carafe full of house wine we put it above the sink to refill for new orders, but often I catch him skolling the remains of whatever he can get his hands on.

   • 2011, Richard Plant, Life's a Blur:

     The Aussie skolled his beer, threw the Kiwi into the fireplace, and shot him.

Alternative forms

• (drink the entire drink): scull

Synonyms

• (drink the entire drink): chug, down

Anagrams

• Klos, Kols

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskoːl/, /ˈskɔːl/

Noun

skol f

1. school

Derived terms

• skol-vamm
• skol-veur

Cornish

Alternative forms

• scol

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin schola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [skoːl]

Noun

skol f (plural skolyow)

1. school

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• scol

Etymology

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Noun

skol f

1. school

References

• Bartoli, Matteo (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch school.

Noun

skol

1. school

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Syllabification: skol

Verb

skol

1. (rare) second-person singular imperative of skłuć

   Synonym: skłuj