What's the difference between guzzle and quaff?

Guzzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  • (v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
  • (n.) An insatiable thing or person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
  • (2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
  • (3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
  • (4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
  • (5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
  • (6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
  • (7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
  • (8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
  • (9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
  • (10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
  • (11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
  • (12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
  • (13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
  • (14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
  • (15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
  • (16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
  • (17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
  • (18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
  • (19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
  • (20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.

Quaff


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
  • (v. i.) To drink largely or luxuriously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One convicted Kenyan poacher who used a spear to kill 70 elephants and cut off their tusks with an axe to sell for £80 a kilo, said he did it because it was “just business.” The demand is not local but comes from south-east Asia, where an increasingly affluent middle class buys ivory that has been carved into trinkets and ornaments , and millionaires quaff ground-down rhino horn in wine as a status symbol .
  • (2) The London weather might be as chilly as Davos but that is where the similarities end, for while the world's movers and shakers quaff champagne, we make do with coffee and a surprisingly large array of teas.
  • (3) One of the more memorable acts of depravity involves an initiation process in which blindfolded newbie Alistair Ryle, played by Sam Claflin, has to quaff some wine and guess the vintage.
  • (4) There will always be someone who’s in a worse state, the one you can label the “real alcoholic” while you quaff nice bottles of wine and remain assured that you’re not yet that bad.
  • (5) Be warned that it is sort of expert-level , calling for a quaff every time the president says "Let me be clear" and every time Mitt Romney says "entrepreneurs" or "small business."
  • (6) Also facing the chop could be the BBC-sponsored party hosted by Yentob at the Glastonbury Festival where the wellington-booted guests quaff champagne while stomping around in the mud to sets by famous DJs.

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