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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for April 8, 1999
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carouse [v. kuh-ROWZ]
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To carouse is to engage in boisterous, drunken revelry: "We drank
round after round of that excellent brew, and caroused until
daybreak." The word looks like it might be related to "arouse" or
"carousel," but actually it comes from a much different source.
In German, when a mug of beer is completely empty, it is "gar aus,"
and there is the expression "trinken gar aus" (to drink until the mug
is empty). The contraction "Garaus" was used in much the same way
that we might say "Bottoms up."
When the expression first entered English, it was only used as an
adverb: "Those poor sots drank carouse and made utter fools of
themselves." Later the word became a verb, and it also became
possible to have a carousal (rowdy drinking session).
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