toast 1
/tohst/ , n.
1. sliced bread that has been browned by dry heat.
2. be toast , Slang. to be doomed, ruined, or in trouble: If you're late to work again, you're toast!
v.t.
3. to brown, as bread or cheese, by exposure to heat.
4. to heat or warm thoroughly at a fire: She toasted her feet at the fireplace.
v.i.
5. to become toasted.
[ 1350-1400; (v.) ME to ( o ) sten toster tostare, deriv. of L tostus ( torstos ), ptp. of torrere to parch, roast, from a base * tors-, akin to Goth thaursus, ON thurr dry; (n.) late ME to ( o ) ste, deriv. of the v.; see TORRID, THIRST ]
toast 2
/tohst/ , n.
1. a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.
2. a person, event, sentiment, or the like, in honor of whom another or others raise their glasses in salutation and then drink.
3. an act or instance of thus drinking: They drank a toast to the queen.
4. a call on another or others to drink to some person or thing.
5. a person who is celebrated as with the spirited homage of a toast: She was the toast of five continents.
v.t.
6. to drink to the health of or in honor of; propose a toast to or in honor of.
7. to propose as a toast.
v.i.
8. to propose or drink a toast.
[ 1690-1700; fig. use of TOAST 1 (n.); the name of a lady so honored was said to give flavor to the drink comparable to that given by spiced toast ]