swilling

swill  (swl)

v. swilled, swill·ing, swills

v.tr.

1. To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).

2. To flood with water, as for washing.

3. To feed (animals) with swill.

v.intr.

To drink or eat greedily or to excess.

n.

1. A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.

2. Kitchen waste; garbage.

3. A deep draft of liquor.

4. Nonsense; rubbish.

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[Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.]

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swiller n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

swilling - the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly guzzling, gulping drinking, imbibing, imbibition - the act of consuming liquids