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▪ I. guzzle, n.|ˈgʌz(ə)l|
Also 7 gozel(l.
[? f. the vb.]
1. A gutter, drain. Also fig. Obs. exc. dial.
1598Florio, Solchi, furrowes..Also gullets or gozels of water. Ibid., Traghetto, a ferrie, a passage, a foarde, a gozell ouer, or from shore to shore. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vii. 203 Mean'st thou..That sinke of filth, that guzzle most impure? What he? 1619R. Harris Drunkard's Cup 12 Such as..lie tumbling in their owne vomite, and sleeping in a guzle. 1619W. Whately God's Husb. i. (1622) 50 The filthy stinking guzzle of Original sinne. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. li. 2 Though a Swine be washed never so clean..she will be ready to wallow in the next guzzle. 1659Torriano, Rigagno, any little..gutter or gozel of water drawn by art into some field or garden. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. Gloss. s.v. Carecta, Carr a gutter is in Lincolnshire a Gool, in Kent a Guzzle, in Wiltshire a Gushill, and Gooshill. 1825Britton Beauties Wilts III. 374 Guzzle, a filthy drain, or the filth of a drain. 1888Berksh. Gloss., Guzzle, the hole for slops outside cottages.
attrib.1599Marston Sco. Villanie i. Proem 171 Quake guzzell dogs, that liue on putred slime.
2. Drink, liquor.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1730) II. 180 Where [have you] squander'd away the tiresom minutes of your evening leisure, over seal'd Winchesters of three-penny guzzle? 1709Rambl. Fuddle-Cups 16 Drink Porters Guzzle much oftner than Claret. 1788Wolcot (P. Pindar) P.'s Pension Wks. 1816 I. 414 Lo, for a little meat and guzzle, This sneaking cur, too, takes the muzzle. 1893Kennard Diogenes' Sandals xi. (ed. 2) 178 Then they'd sell ye ‘guzzle’ for next to nothin'.
3. A bout of excessive eating and drinking; a debauch.
1836M. Scott Cruise Midge xviii. 285 About the time supper was announced..and just before the guzzle began. 1898N.B. Daily Mail 28 Oct. 3 He opposed the freedom of the city to Mr. C― on account of the inevitable ‘guzzle’ thereafter.
4. dial. The throat.
1659Lond. Chanticleers xi. 25 A single one [sc. a cord] I believe wou'd spoile your drinking, 'twou'd ty up your guzle. 1885Mucklebackit Rhymes 39 (E.D.D.) This kingly dog His lugs down pendin' to his guzzle. 18..Oldham Recruit (E.D.D.), I put my foot in his ribs, and my fingers in the guzzel of his neck.
5. attrib., as guzzle-guts, a glutton.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 167 They call him [sc. a greedy-guts]..guzzle-guts. 1968Gloss. Brit. Argot (Paramount Pictures), Guzzle-guts, glutton.
▪ II. guzzle, v.|ˈgʌz(ə)l|
Forms: 6 gussel, 6–8 guzle, 7 gusle, gousle, guzzel, 7– guzzle.
[? a. OF. gosiller (recorded in the sense ‘to vomit’, also ‘to chatter’), connected with gosier ‘throat’.]
1. trans. To swallow (liquor, rarely food) greedily or to excess. Also with down, up.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. li, Wyne which they gussel and quaffe vp without measure or reason. 1609W. M. Man in Moone (1857) 90 He hath..gusled downe his throate more then Cleopatra quaffed in a bravado to Mark Anthonie. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 80 How many gallons have you guzzled for your morning's draught? 1692Tryon Good House-w. xix. 175 Men and Women addict themselves..to guzzle down the Richest Wines daily. 1711Ramsay Elegy on M. Johnston 22 We guzl'd Scuds Till we cou'd scarce..Cast off our duds. 1808C. K. Sharpe Corr. (1888) I. 336 How it annoyed me to behold Belvidera [Mrs. Siddons] guzzle boiled beef and mustard, swill streams of porter [etc.]. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. viii, Guzzling his venison pasties. 1841Thackeray Mem. Gormandising Wks. 1886 XXIII. 350 It is absurd to be guzzling wine at fifteen francs a bottle.
transf.1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 28 The Spirits are to be put into such a temperament, and degree of activity; That they should not (as He saith) Drink or Guzzle the juyces of the Body, but Sip them onely.
2. To consume or dissipate (time, money, etc.) in guzzling. With away, down.
1653Manton Exp. James v. 5 It is prodigious in poor men to guzzle and drink away their days. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. verse 14 x. §2 (1669) 42/2 He that should save his money from guzling it down his throat. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. i. 4 To see the virtuous munificence of founders..guzzled down in hogsheads of wine. c1797Chronicle in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1799) I. 356, I do not mean you should guzzle away all that large stock of money. 1895‘Rosemary’ Under the Chilterns 188 An' 'ere's me an' the childern in rags..an' you guzzlin' away down at the public wot should go to put cloes on their backs.
3. intr. To drink largely or greedily, to ‘swill’.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 880 They..passed away the night in guzling and drinking drunk. 1618E. Elton Compl. Sanct. Sinner (1622) 240 Many sit guzzeling in the ale-house. 1647Trapp Comm. Eph. v. 4 Some men as ducks have their noses alwaies guzling in the gutter of obscene talk. 1784Cowper Task iv. 473 There sit,..guzzling deep, the boor, The lackey, and the groom. 1793Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ep. to the Pope Wks. 1812 III. 208 In vice's drunken Cup for ever guzzling. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 519 If he chose to shoot and guzzle at his country seat when important business was under consideration at Westminster.
4. trans. To seize by the throat, choke, throttle; to strangle, kill. (Cf. guzzle n. 4.) slang and dial.
1885F. Gordon Pyotshaw 318 Guzzle, to choke violently. 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist (1917) iv. 195 Duck him! Guzzle him now, Towser! 1931D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) 186 He will be safe from being guzzled by some of Black Mike's or Benny's guys. 1960Observer 17 July 9/8 ‘Can't you..guzzle your friends, Hugh?’.. North of the Border it [sc. the word ‘guzzle’] does not mean to stuff oneself: apparently it means to gag.
Hence ˈguzzledom nonce-wd.
1895A. Nutt in K. Meyer Voy. Bran I. 207 A marvellous land of Cockayne, of gorging guzzledom, of bursting fatness. |