Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To drink greedily or grossly.
- intransitive verb To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid.
- intransitive verb To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing.
- intransitive verb To swirl (a liquid) around in a container or in one's mouth.
- intransitive verb To feed (animals) with swill.
- intransitive verb To drink greedily or to excess.
- noun A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
- noun Liquor or other alcohol of poor quality.
- noun A swig or gulp of a drink.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wicker basket of a round or globular form, with open top, in which red herrings and other fish and goods are carried to market for sale.
- noun Specifically A basket of 100 herrings.
- noun Liquid in general; especially a liquid that leaks, gushes, or swills in.
- noun Drink; liquor, as drunk to excess: so called in contempt.
- noun Liquid food for animals; specifically, the refuse or leavings of the kitchen, as given to swine.
- noun A keeler to wash in, standing on three feet.
- To rinse; drench; wash; bathe.
- To drink greedily or to excess.
- To fill; swell with fullness.
- To wash; rinse.
- To drink greedily; drink to excess.
- noun A shade.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also
swillings . - noun Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
- intransitive verb To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
- transitive verb obsolete To wash; to drench.
- transitive verb To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
- transitive verb To inebriate; to fill with drink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
mixture ofsolid andliquid food scraps fed topigs etc; especiallykitchen waste for this purpose - noun any disgusting or distasteful liquid
- noun anything disgusting or worthless
- noun a large
quantity ofliquid drunk at oneswallow - noun Ultimate Frisbee A badly-thrown
pass - noun Inexpensive
beer - verb to
eat ordrink greedily or toexcess - verb to
wash something byflooding withwater
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb feed pigs
- verb drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
- noun wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Time to turn on the lights and watch them scurry back into the darkness … Their excessive postings and repeating their reich winged swill is all they have … So much hate, they truly are a miserable lot.
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SIXPACK – that cheap piss you swill is starting to take a toll!
Think Progress » O’Reilly Deceives Guest Into Appearing on Blog Bashing Segment 2005
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I mean, ingesting corporate swill is all very well in the privacy of your own home … ..
Think Progress » White House officials seek Bloomin’ Onion of the Far East. 2005
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Hidden amid all this swill is actually a moderately interesting question, to wit: How does greater sexual openness in a culture affect those who, for whatever reasons, aren’t getting any?
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The "swill" - when men raced to get as drunk as possible after work before closing time - was finally over.
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And at the better ball parks they actually serve something other than the swill from the major breweries:)
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And at the better ball parks they actually serve something other than the swill from the major breweries:)
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All the little piggies who had their snouts well dunked in the swill will be the only ones to lament the passing of these particularly odious pieces of waste.
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All the little piggies who had their snouts well dunked in the swill will be the only ones to lament the passing of these particularly odious pieces of waste.
Archive 2007-07-15 2007
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Drinking anything called swill didn't appeal to Cerryl.
The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998
travismcdermott commented on the word swill
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille.
June 23, 2008
travismcdermott commented on the word swill
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille.
June 23, 2008
travismcdermott commented on the word swill
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille.
June 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word swill
The pigs are hungry today, oh boy.
June 23, 2008
yarb commented on the word swill
Utterly morose
after eight of Bass,
I review the gross
sub-species and freaks
swilling at the bar.
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983
July 1, 2008