old toast
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English
Noun
old toast (plural old toasts)
- (slang, obsolete) A lively fellow who drinks excessively; a carouser.
- 1667, Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in R L[’Estrange], transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, , London: H 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
- “old toast n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “toast, n.1”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
