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swill
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swill \Swill\, n.
The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Swill \Swill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.] [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]
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To wash; to drench. [Obs.]
As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
--Shak. -
[Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n.] To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
--Smollett. -
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers.
--Milton.
Swill \Swill\, v. i.
To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"liquid kitchen refuse fed to pigs," 1550s, from swill (v.).
Old English swilian, swillan "to wash out, gargle," probably from Proto-Germanic *swil-, related to the root of swallow (v.). Meaning "drink greedily" is from 1530s. Related: Swilled; swilling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose 2 any disgusting or distasteful liquid 3 anything disgusting or worthless 4 a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow 5 (context Ultimate Frisbee English) A badly-thrown pass 6 Inexpensive beer vb. 1 to eat or drink greedily or to excess 2 to wash something by flooding with water 3 to inebriate; to fill with drink. 4 to feed pigs swill
WordNet
Wikipedia
Swill may also refer to:
- Pig swill
- Swill (album), an album by Ten Foot Pole
- Philip "Swill" Odgers, singer with The Men They Couldn't Hang
- Six o'clock swill
- Swill Brook, a number of streams in England
Swill is Ten Foot Pole's first recording on the band's own label, Ten Foot Records.
Swill is food for animals in liquid or partly liquid form.
The term can also be used as an extremely derogatory label for any drink meant for human consumption perceived as unpalatable or nearly so.
Usage examples of "swill".
It was bad enough, just listening to that demagogic swill -- but I doubt if there were more than a dozen people in Miami that week who really understood what that cheap, demented little fascist punk had in mind for his Four More Years.
Inger Gussel grimaced as she swilled out the large glass-roofed conservatory which recently had been a reading- and rest-room.
There seemed so much gusto in the way he puffed and swilled as he washed himself, so much alacrity with which he hurried to the mirror in the kitchen, and, bending because it was too low for him, scrupulously parted his wet black hair, that it irritated Mrs.
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.
The villagers, thinking that these ruffians had come to kill both Obmi and Keak, cheerfully directed the group to where the dwarf and elf swilled cheap wine and sported.
Pop, coming in to breakfast after giving morning swill to the pigs, paused affectionately to wipe them off with a feeder worked all over in royal blue daisies and a bright scarlet picture of Miss Muffet, the big spider, and the curds-and-whey.
We just created our own simulated Spindle, complete with Blue Hell gambling casino, and we sat there with Sergei, swilling down icy vodka and nibbling pretzels and smoked fish.
The young mouse swilled his face and paws, shaking away the droplets and drying off with a pawful of grass.
He scraped the uneaten food from his plate, then swilled the plate and his knife and fork in the tub of soapless cold water that was provided for them to wash their dinner-things in.
Sailors, fishermen, and an occasional traveler caught by the cloudburst sprawled on log benches before long tables, swilling sour Argossean ale or, for those who could afford a finer liquor, rich Zingaran wine.
Georgie scooped up a forkful of scrambled egg, swilling it down with a gulp of tea.
Small swirling puddles settled on the path, black and threatening, swilling over the edges on to the lawn, turning green to brown.
Russell P Barnes by sitting behind a desk for half your life, and swilling cocktails at embassy receptions for the other half.
The group was already swilling ale in the common room and for several moments Ruark and Shanna were the center of amusement.
Dirrach knew the poison had gone into the flagon, had seen Bardel swill it down.