| 释义 |
▪ I. swiller1|ˈswɪlə(r)|
[f. swill v. + -er1.]
One who swills.
†1. One who swills dishes; a scullion. Obs.
c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 769/24 Hic lixa, a swyllere.
2. One who drinks greedily or to excess.
1598Florio, Sorbibruodo, a greasie, slouenly feeder, a sipper of broth, a swiller. c1618Moryson Itin. iv. (1903) 224 These Judges were..great swillers of Spanish sacke. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. Prol. A 6 b, What Swillers, what Twisters will there be! 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 71 The genuine Goths, as happens everywhere to this day, were great swillers of ale and beer.
▪ II. swiller2 north. dial.
[f. swill n.1 + -er1.]
One who makes swills or baskets.
1859W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland 116 Swiller,..a swill-maker. 1901C. W. Bardsley Dict. Eng. & Welsh Surnames 522/2 In Ulverston registers to this day a maker of swills (i.e. baskets) is set down as a swiller. 1949K. S. Woods Rural Crafts of Eng. iii. viii. 142 In Furness the baskets are known as swills, and the craftsmen as swillers. Whether the word is a form of scull or scuttle, or whether it means swaler, is not known. 1972Daily Tel. 5 Aug. 9/4 The Lancashire mountains near Ulverston, home of the ‘swillers’, or basket-makers. Ibid., With a short and very sharp knife the swiller slices his oak into ribs which he fixes across a hazel rim. |