单词 | swattle |
释义 | swattlev. northern dialect. 1. a. intransitive. To make a splashing or spluttering noise in or with water. (Cf. swatter v. 1.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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