swilling

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.

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[Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.]

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swill′er n.

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swilling - the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidlyguzzling, gulpingdrinking, imbibing, imbibition - the act of consuming liquids