swign.1
/swɪɡ/, U.S. /swɪɡ/ slang or colloquial.
1.
a. Drink, liquor. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vi. 74 Hauing been long accustomed to the olde soure swyg of Moses lawe they could not awaie with the muste of euangelical charitie.
1635 J. Taylor Life T. Parr C 2 b And for his daily swig, Milk, Butter-milk, and Water, Whay, and Whig.
b. Applied locally to special drinks: see quots.
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1827 R. Cook Oxf. Night Caps 30 The Wassail Bowl, or Swig, as it is termed at Jesus College in this University.
1827 R. Cook Oxf. Night Caps 30 (note) Swig was formerly almost exclusively confined to Jesus College; it is now, however, a great favourite through~out the University.
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 584 Swig, 1. Toast and ale.
2.
a. An act of ‘swigging’; a deep or copious draught of a beverage, esp. of intoxicating liquor; a ‘pull’.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously
quaffing1533
glut1541
carouse1559
quaff1579
all out1582
carousing1582
skolinga1599
supernaculum1622
swig1622
waughting1637
kelty1664
swigging1702
waught1721
toot1787
willie-waught1826
swiping1833
swipe1866
bottomer1876
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 208 He takes the flagon of wine in his hands, and giues it a good swigge.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Changeling (1653) iv. sig. F3v But one swig more, sweet Madam.
1687 Honour of Taylors ix. 17 After they had taken several lusty swigs, so that their spirits came (as it were) again.
a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 182 in Compl. Wks. (1731) After a good hearty Swig out of one of the Bottles of Ale.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxvi ‘Hand us that whisky’—he put the bottle to his mouth and took a swig.
1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xxix. 288 And now for another swig at the beer.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xi I buy a ha'porth of bread, take a swig at a fountain, and tramp the East End parks to kill time.
b. Drinking; to play at swig, to indulge in drinking. ? Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families (1776) 32 A vitious, odious King [sc. Donald V], he play'd at swig, Whilst he lost Scotland all to Striviling-bridge.
Compounds
swig-bowl, swig-day (see quots.).
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1832 W. Hone Year Bk. 265 Swig Day, at Cambridge [sic].
1870 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Swig, spiced ale and toast... Swig-bowl, the large bowl—like a punch-bowl—in which swig is served.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† swign.2
Cards. Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > new-cut or swig
new-cutc1590
swig1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trinca, a game at cards called swig or new cut.
c1700 Kennett in MS. Lansd. 1033 lf. 398 (Hall.) A sort of play at cards in the North, in which all the gamesters are to be silent, is calld swig.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
swign.3
Nautical.
1. A tackle the falls of which are not parallel.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > of which falls not parallel
swig1807
1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 197/2 A pulley with ropes not parallel is called by seamen a swigg.
1852 R. Burn Naval & Mil. Techn. Dict. French Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 280 Swig,..palan.
2. The act of ‘swigging’ at a rope: see swig v.3 3 (In quots., a punning use of swig n.1)
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [noun] > operations on ropes or tackle
reeving1627
worming1644
rounding1766
rendering1769
snaking1815
surging1839
snubbing1846
swig1849
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > at a rope
swigging1702
swig1904
1849 H. Melville Redburn ix. 66 Every once in a while, the men went into one corner, where the chief mate could not see them, to take a ‘swig at the halyards’, as they called it;..‘to taper off’.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 July 12/2 Take a swig on those halliards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
† swigv.1
Cards. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > deal, shuffle, or cut
cutc1555
swig1591
lift1599
misdeal1834
split1866
to slip the cut1879
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play a card [verb (transitive)] > actions or tactics > heap cards or place together
pack1587
swig1591
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card-sharping or cheating > [verb (intransitive)] > methods of cheating
swig1591
cog1592
slip1760
to top the deck1894
to deal seconds1951
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 69 S. Will you put it to me? A. You bid me to losse. S. Will you swigg? A. Tis the least part of my thought.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To swig or deale againe at cards.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To heape vp, to swigge the cardes.
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 232 Swyca. A beguyler, we aske at cardes yf one wil swig, that is, whether he will beguile or bee beguyled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
swigv.2
slang or colloquial.
To drink (esp. intoxicating liquor) in deep draughts; to drink eagerly or copiously.1780 R. Tomlinson Slang Pastoral 3 With such a companion,..To swig porter all day.1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress App. i. 39 The Hero, that sits there, Swigging Blue Ruin, in that chair.1838 J. Grant Sketches London 62 The oceans of ‘Entire’ which they are everlastingly swigging.1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxxi. 111 Beer; of which he swigged such copious draughts, that most of his faculties were utterly drowned and washed away.1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxvi. 362 He swigged off a great bumper as he was making the remark.1871 J. Ruskin in W. G. Collingwood Life & Work J. Ruskin (1893) II. 127 ‘I am..drinking as much tea,’—taking his second cup—‘as I can swig.’
a. transitive (with the vessel, or the drink, as object).
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink deeply
swinka1563
swig1682
mop1811
to knock back1931
pound1970
slug1979
slam1982
1682 Wit & Drollery, Tom-a-Bedlam iv. 151 When short I have shorn my Sows face, And swigg'd my Horned Barrel.
c1688 Jolly Welsh Woman in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII. 724 Now while hur had gotten the jugg at her snout,..Hur gave it a tug, 'till hur swigg'd it half out.
1772 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer (rev. ed.) vi. 246 When my landlord..fairly fills it full, I just can swigg it at one pull.
1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. ix. 99 You sailors will ever be swigging your can.
b. absol. or intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink deeply or copiously
quaught1530
swinka1563
to drink like a lorda1627
swig1650
slug1856
to knock back1931
1650 L. Price Dead & Alive ii. 1/2 The second time that he set [up] the bottle to his snout, He never left off swigging till he had suckt all out.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1890) III. 143 I went to a dairy-house and swigged of the milk and water.
1792 J. Budworth Fortnight's Ramble Lakes i. 4 He pulled a bottle of chamomile tea out of his pocket, and swigged heartily.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xl. 438 Them down-hearted fellers as can't svig avay at the beer.
1840 R. H. Barham Lay St. Nicholas in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 269 Swigging as though he would empty the Rhine.
Derivatives
ˈswigging n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously
quaffing1533
glut1541
carouse1559
quaff1579
all out1582
carousing1582
skolinga1599
supernaculum1622
swig1622
waughting1637
kelty1664
swigging1702
waught1721
toot1787
willie-waught1826
swiping1833
swipe1866
bottomer1876
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [adjective] > drinking deeply or copiously
swilling1633
swigging1702
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > at a rope
swigging1702
swig1904
1702 T. Yalden Æsop at Court xiii. 34 I'll brush those Swigging Dogs away, That on thy Blood remorseless Prey.
1723 J. Vanbrugh Let. in Athenæum 6 Sept. (1890) 322/3 I have been drinking waters at Scarborough three or four days, and am to return thither..for a weeks swigging more.
1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs III. 288 They had a swigging bout in prison.
1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 268 This would be called in America pretty large swigging for one family.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
swigv.3
1. transitive. To castrate (a ram) by tying the scrotum tightly with a string.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > castrate
knit1607
swig1663
1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. v. xii. 234 A Servant of mine that deals much in Cattle, and had lately divers Sheep swigg'd (as they call it) after this manner.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 315 Swigging, which is girding them hard round the cods, and cutting the cod away close to the string.
2. ? To pull about.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push or pull about roughly
to-push13..
manhandlea1470
tussle?a1500
touse1509
rouzle1582
touslea1585
turmoil1588
jostle1602
grabble1684
swig1684
shovel1816
tousle1816
to push (someone) around1900
scruff1926
1684 T. Creech tr. Virgil Eclogues iii, in J. Dryden Misc. Poems I. ii. 21 The Lambkins swigg the Teat, But find no moisture.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 466 The bleating Lambs Securely swig the Dug, beneath the Dams.
3. Nautical. To pull at the bight of a rope which is fast at one end to a fixed object and at the other to a movable one; to pull (a sail, etc.) up in this manner. Also intransitive, to pull on a rope (see quot. 1961).
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific ways
windc1550
veer1590
veer1604
rousea1625
heave1626
overhaul1626
ease1627
pay1627
reeve1627
unbend1627
to come up1685
overhale1692
to pay away1769
surge1769
render1777
to pay out1793
to round down1793
to set upon ——1793
swig1794
veer1806
snake1815
to side out for a bend1831
rack1841
snub1841
society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (intransitive)] > work ropes or cables in specific way
windc1550
heave1626
to round up1766
to veer and haul1769
to freshen the nip1807
single1900
swig1917
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 176 Swigging off, pulling upon the middle of a tight rope that is made fast at both ends.
1827 Examiner 154/1 Taking about a calendar month to swig up her mainsail.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 57 Swinging or swigging off, that is, pulling at right angles to a taut rope.
1917 A. Quiller-Couch Mortallone & Aunt Trinidad ix. 77 He had now to hoist sail; which he did very leisurably..swigging on the uphaul till he had it chock-a-block.
1939 A. Ransome Secret Water xxi. 250 ‘It's just the wind we want,’ panted Daisy swigging on her halyard.
1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 203 Swig, to swig on a rope is to take half a turn with one hand, whilst heaving and taking up the slack with the other.
4. intransitive. To sway about, waver; to move with a swaying motion.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily
stackera1300
welt13..
waggera1382
swaver?a1400
blundc1400
swab14..
swabble14..
gogglec1460
reel1477
galay1489
stagger1530
swag1530
stag1561
wheel1832
swig1833
wavel1896
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 171/2 Her long slender wands of masts, which used to swig about.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 58 The landward breeze Brings up the harbour noise, And ebb of Yokohama Bay Swigs chattering through the buoys.
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