swattlev.
/ˈswat(ə)l/ northern dialect.
1.
a. intransitive. To make a splashing or spluttering noise in or with water. (Cf. swatter v. 1.)
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash
paskc1300
jaup1513
plash1650
squash1671
swattle1671
slumpa1677
splash1715
quash1739
pash1855
slush1883
sloosh1914
1671 in J. Raine Depos. Castle of York (1861) 186 That she carryed him downe and threw him in the becke, and that he swattled after he came in the becke.
c1700 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 Swattle, to drink as ducks doe water.
b. intransitive and reflexive. To tipple or guzzle drink.
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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
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (reflexive)]
overdrinkOE
soak1817
swattlec1826
binge1854
to drink oneself silly1907
to tank up1951
1785 Bran New Wark (E.D.S.) 460 He can be naa nebbour at dow, that tipples and swattles, and idles fra morning to neet.
c1826 Hogg in J. Wilson's Wks. (1855) I. 224 Some wouldna gie misery a dram Though they swattle themselves till they spew.
2. = swatter v. 2.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste
spilla1000
scatter1154
aspilla1250
rospa1325
waste1340
spend1390
consumec1425
waste1474
miswenda1500
forsumea1510
to cast away1530
to throw away1561
embezzle1578
squander1593
palter1595
profuse1611
squander1611
ravel1614
sport1622
to fool away1628
to stream out1628
to fribble away1633
sweal1655
frisk1665
to fiddle away1667
wantonize1673
slattera1681
swattle1681
drivel1686
swatter1690
to muddle away1707
squander1717
sot1746
slattern1747
meisle1808
fritter1820
waster1821
slobber1837
to cut to waste1863
fringe1863
potter1883
putter1911
profligate1938
to piddle away1942
haemorrhage1978
spaff2002
1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel Pref. p. xciii By making them swattle away their love and zeal upon false objects.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words To Swattle away, to waste.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) Till thou'd swattled it clean away, bit by bit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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