Crossword clues for guzzle
guzzle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guzzle \Guz"zle\, n. An insatiable thing or person.
That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure.
--Marston.
Guzzle \Guz"zle\, v. t.
To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to
drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
--Dryden.
Guzzle \Guz"zle\ (g[u^]z"z'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Guzzled (g[u^]z"z'ld), p. pr. & vb. n. Guzzling (g[u^]z"zl[i^]ng).] [OP. gosillier, prob. orig., to pass through the throat; akin to F. gosier throat; cf. It. gozzo a bird's crop.] To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
--Milton.
Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise,
Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.
--Roscommon.
To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
--Gay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, probably related to Old French gosillier "to go down the gullet; to vomit, chatter, talk," from gosier (13c.) "jaws, throat, gullet." Or imitative of the sound of drinking greedily. Related: Guzzled; guzzling. As a noun from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated uncountable English) Drink; intoxicating liquor. 2 (context dated English) A drinking bout; a debauch. 3 (context dated English) An insatiable thing or person. 4 (context obsolete British provincial English) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called ''guzzen''. vb. 1 To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust. 2 (context intransitive dated English) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually. 3 (context by extension English) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.
WordNet
v. drink greedily or as if with great thirst; "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"
Wikipedia
Guzzle is a fictional character in the Transformers series. He started as an Autobot warrior who turns into a tank.
Guzzle is a HTTP client library for PHP. Initially a wrapper library around cURL, it evolved to a transport agnostic PSR-7 compatible library.
It is shipped on Packagist as a Composer (software) package, where it's used by 4 905 PHP libraries, frameworks or applications.
Usage examples of "guzzle".
She picked up the little, soft Golden Retriever with her free hand and studied it closely, swigging a hefty champagne guzzle at the same time.
We can do it in about the length of time it takes to guzzle a beer-and-a-half.
To kill the morning taste in his mouth, he grabbed a can of diet cola from the refrigerator and popped the tab, then guzzled half of the disgusting stuff.
But the main sinners, in the eyes of the righteous, were those who guzzled at every chance they could muster.
The also enyoyed the time old habit of finding a comfortable perch in the center, near the mine office, where they guzzled beer and ogled the odd female.
She raised the bottle and guzzled another mouthful of the bubbly champagne.
He first rinsed his mouth, spit out the pinkish fluid, then threw back his head and avidly guzzled at least half the quart of tepid brandy-water, and it was only then that he became fully aware of his surroundings.
I stared at the stars and thought of old Ernie and his corny stories about the Left Bank and all the fine wines and wonderful meals he guzzled with his lesbian friends.
Then, while he swilled and guzzled and wallowed for many days in happy drunkenness, I did the buying of what supplies we needed for the next stage of our journey.
Kush awakened slowly, his senses still sluggish from the wine he had guzzled at the feast the night before.
They had hunted and guzzled and gambled together, and Aahmes had complained privately to Amboola about the queen, whose cruel heart was as cunning and treacherous as her dusky body was desirable.
He guzzled two cups of coffee and wolfed down a couple of slices of toast topped with plum marmalade.
Mac, guzzled a large glass of iced tea and started on a second, without touching the food on his plate.
By the way she guzzled, pressing it to her dry lips, Ista thought they were none too soon with this sustenance.
At last Bajujh rose tottering, and lifted his hands, less a sign to end the feast, than a token of surrender in the contest of gorging and guzzling, and stumbling, was caught by his warriors who bore him to his hut.