swill-tubn.
/ˈswɪltʌb/ A tub for swill or hog-wash. Occasionally attributive. Also figurative with allusion to heavy drinking.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding pigs > pig's trough > tub for hogwash
swine tub1554
swine skeel1559
swill-tub1575
1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle iv. ii. sig. Diii Art thou sure diccon, the swil tub standes not here aboute.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vii. lxxvii. 104 Sowre swil-tub sinne, of all the rest the sink.
1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 261 The Husband..has been call'd Blockhead, Toss-pot, Swill-tub.
1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. iii. 84 The inhabitants..have a custom..to make Pyes in the Form of a Swill, or Swine-Tub.
1756 Poor Robin June B j b Who makes a swill tub of his womb, Is but a speaking, prattling tomb.
1899 ‘Ouida’ in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 813 Hogs do not rend the man who carries the swill-tub.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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