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noun

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.

verb

Swill v. t. (past & past part. swilled; pres. part. swilling)

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."

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. "Well-dressed people, of both sexes,... devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider."

To inebriate; to fill with drink. "I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers."

Swill v. i. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.

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"Swill" Quotes from Famous Books

... all evening for the next day. And, above all, it is here that your overwalker fails of comprehension. His heart rises against those who drink their curacoa in liqueur glasses, when he himself can swill it in a brown john. He will not believe that the flavour is more delicate in the smaller dose. He will not believe that to walk this unconscionable distance is merely to stupefy and brutalise himself, and come to his inn, at night, with a sort of frost on his five wits, ...

— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... and whoso wine-cups swill; * Becoming one of those who deem it ill: Wine driveth man to miss salvation-way, [FN394] * And opes the gateway wide to ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... seeing that our nature is what it is, we must try to make the best of it. It seems as though we civilized human beings must have stimulating drinks, and that being so, we have to follow our own convictions. I am for a glass of toddy. Let who will eat plum-cake and swill hot coffee — heartburn and other troubles are often the result of this kind of refreshment. A little ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... afterdraught gullies him too down; Now he wrings for breath with the deathgush brown; Till a lifebelt and God's will Lend him a lift from the sea-swill. ...

— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins

... Council has appealed to householders not to put broken glass in their swill. With all imports of glass-ware cut off, it is felt that even our pigs must be required to forgo some of ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, March 14, 1917 • Various

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