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Use of Word 'Scull'.

Has anyone seen the word 'scull' used in British writing to describe downing an ale or drink, as in: 'He sculled his beer'?
It is used widely in Australia; just wondering if it is used enough here for it to be recognised.
Ta.

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  • I'd use that word in relation to rowing- oars.

  • Agree with Carol - I've never heard of anyone sculling their beer - not even from Aussie friends and family.
  • No - only heard it as a rowing term.
  • Nope. Only know it as a rowing term.

    Out of context I'd imagine 'He sculled his beer' meant he inspected it, or was disastisfied with it.
  • Ta, very interesting.

    Claudia, if you mention it to Oz friends, they will surely identify with it. It's as popular as the 'barby'. :D
  • I've heard of it in drinking terms.
  • Is it not skol though?
  • edited May 2017
    I've recently heard 'necking a beer'.
  • Schooner is used for sherry glasses.
  • You lot know far too much about drinking.

    Disgusted of TB Manor.
  • Is it not skol though?
    I've heard skol used as an alternative to 'cheers', but not skolling.
  • I'm sure you can by a schooner of beer in Australia - meaning a jug for sharing.
    I used to have a wonderful book called 'Let's Talk Strine' which gave all these things.
    I also had The Drinkspotty Book which told one how to speak frightfully upper class English. It's wise to cover all social eventualities.


  • When I was in Oz my uncle took me to the RSL where a schooner was about a third of a pint of beer. That's if I remember aright - it was 1990!

    On the other hand, you can use almost any word to denote being pissed. I heard a comedian list loads of unlikely words which, in context, worked well. Try it and see.
    She was too handbagged to stand.
    All the lads gor anoracked that night.
    :)
  • Right, Lizy. A schooner is still around; basically another name for (and similar size to) a regular glass. With respect to other contributors, it has never been a jug or sherry glass in Australia, although Britain confers a different usage.

    For BR, it's definitely, 'scull' and I have found it in the Australian 'Oxford' with the drinking definition. My dilemma was whether to use the word in a British novel. From this thread it seems as if I'd better drop the word.

    Thanks all.
  • PET, my memory dates from a 1979 trip to Australia, so is permitted to be vague. Many things are, after all this time.
  • I have a friend whose father was a director of a Scandinavian Shipping company. In her youth she enjoyed lots of free trips on the company's ships. Consequently she always nowadays says 'skoll' when every one else is saying 'cheers', a term, she says, learned from the Scandinavian sailors. I strongly suspect it wasn't the only thing she learned from them.
  • Yes, I have Swedish friends who use that word as cheers. Not sure how you spell it though!
  • We say 'salud' after all our years in Tenerife.
  • Yes, I have Swedish friends who use that word as cheers. Not sure how you spell it though!
    That's Skål.

  • edited May 2017
    Scull, in this part of the world is to pour the beer straight down the throat as opposed to drinking in a civilized manner. Cheers.
  • Yep, precisely. Former Oz prime minister was famed for it. Quite a few good 'scullers' in the Silver Ferns also!!
  • Another Aussie word is Strine. Utterly describes the twang in their speech.
  • Ah, that got me in the mood. Just had 2 Vegemite sandwiches.
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