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swiller
swill S0944800 (swĭl)v. swilled, swill·ing, swills v.tr.1. a. To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).b. To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid: swilled down the pretzels with soda.2. a. To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing: swilled out the glass.b. To swirl (a liquid) around in a container or in one's mouth: swilled the wine in the glass before sniffing.3. To feed (animals) with swill.v.intr. To drink greedily or to excess.n.1. A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.2. Liquor or other alcohol of poor quality: I won't drink this swill.3. A swig or gulp of a drink.
[Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.]
swill′er n.swiller
suds swillerslang A beer enthusiast. Sometimes hyphenated. I've never really been a suds swiller, so I usually have to bring my own drinks to parties. Oktoberfest in Munich is a mecca each year for suds-swillers around the globe.See also: suds, swillersuds-swiller n. a beer-drinker. Ted is a suds-swiller and Bill won’t touch the stuff. What strange roommates. ThesaurusSeeswill |