1: Bring a mug o' ale to slocken his fiddle. 1822 Galt Provost vii.: Your tale and tidings shana lack slockening. Cromek Remains 91: But I slokened the limmers ane by ane. (3) To provide with drink, “baptize”, inaugurate or celebrate with a drink, to expend (money) on drink. Milne Eppie Elrick vii.: 'Ere's nae muckle slyockenin i' this fuzhionless stuff. Murray Country Places 5: Ye're weel-slockened noo, an' afore ye get fou. Strathearn 192: He's waur tae slocken nor tae corn. 1899 Crockett Black Douglas xxxviii.: Ae mither's milk slockened ye baith. Willox Poems 74: It's no' the dinner, it's the efter-effects, wi' the slockening that tak's place. Johnston Glenbuckie 69: It'll tak' a guid sup o' whisky to sloken them a'. (1874) vi.: I hae muckle need o' a slockening. 105: Slockned now, refresh'd and talking.
78: Till wasted was baith Cash and Tick, Sae ill they were to slocken. (2) To quench or slake the thirst of (a person or animal), to satisfy (someone) as regards drink (Gall. Pryde McFlannel Family Affairs 121: Soor dook wis a rare slockener. Smith Mang Howes 9: A penny gray rowe, wui a slokener owre an abuin. Cunningham Broomieburn 15: He could do with a “slockener.” Rxb. 405: Coffee's nae slokener - and I am unco thrusty. slo(c)kener, n., a thirst-quencher, drink, draught (ne., m. 1999 James Robertson The Day O Judgement 13: Aw ye that lustit efter gowd An gaithert it wi greed an bluid Mey slocken tae the ful yer thirst - In wi ye then, an slorp the flude!ĭeriv. 1964 Weekly Scotsman (6 Aug.) 18: There wasn't enough water available to slocken the drouth of a moose. Mackenna Bracken and Thistledown 25: He never as muckle as speirs if ye've a drouth tae slocken. White Eppie Gray 13: Swats their lowin' drooth tae sloken. 1874 Stevenson New Poems (1922) 436: There's thirst an' what'll slocken it. Wood Ceres Races 22: And wi' some auld freends in Ceres toon His burning drooth wad slochen. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet xiii.: The blue bowl - that will sloken all their drouth. (June) 533: Determining to “slocken their curiosity.” Sc. Buchanan Poems 295: Let's tak a slock'nin waught o' beer. 1786 Burns Lord Daer ii.: When mighty Squireships of the quorum Their hydra drouth did sloken. to allay (the thirst for knowledge), satisfy curiosity. (1) To quench (thirst), satisfy (the desire to drink) (Sc. This entry has not been updated but may contain minor corrections and revisions. Includes material from the 2005 supplement. Show Show Browse Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)įirst published 1971 (SND Vol.
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