Sekirov Dictionary

swill

/swɪl/

noun 6
verb 6
forms 3
phrases 2

noun6

A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
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Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
- I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
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(figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
- This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
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(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
- Kesh's assistant, Wilma, wants to surprise Kesh with some bootlegged swill from Kadara. — 2017
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(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
- He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
A badly-thrown pass.

verb6

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To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
- […] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […] — 1771
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To wash (something) by flooding with water.
- As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O’erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean. — 1599
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To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
- Jimmie looked lovingly at the flask, smelt it, and then, placing it next his ear, swilled it round to hear the splash of liquor. — 1958
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To move around or over a surface.
- A flood of fads swilled over all Europe. — 1959
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To feed swill to (pigs).
- “Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?” — 1921
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(no longer used) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
- […] I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill’d insolence Of such late Wassailers — 1634

forms

swilled · swilling · swills

Phrases with swill

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