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noun

Swill n.

The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; called also swillings.

Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

verb

Swill v. t. (past & past part. swilled; pres. part. swilling)

To wash; to drench. (Obs.) "As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean."

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. "Well-dressed people, of both sexes,... devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider."

To inebriate; to fill with drink. "I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers."

Swill v. i. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.

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"Swill" Quotes from Famous Books

... master means to die shortly, For he hath given to me all his goods: And yet, methinks, if that death were near, He would not banquet, and carouse, and swill Amongst the students, as even now he doth, Who are at supper with such belly-cheer As Wagner ne'er beheld in all his life. See, where they come! belike the feast is ...

— Dr. Faustus • Christopher Marlowe

... Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people pay To see him in his panoply appear; To see him pad his paunch with dainty cheer, Puff his perfecto, swill champagne, and sway Just like a gentleman, yet all in play, Then bow himself ...

— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service

... we used to mix a few drinks when we came home from a show or something and sit right here in this room and swill 'em off, laffing and laffing till we got a little lit up. That time when we sneaked down to Sheepshead and you lost your wad at the wheel and I won it back for you. All them times, Max! That—that Christmas Eve you ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... Virginians can see it? When I presented my scheme for setting forts along the northern line, I could not screw a guinea out of the miscreants. The colony was poor, they cried, and could not afford it, and then the worshipful councillors rode home to swill Madeira and loll on their London beds. God's truth! were I not a patriot, I would welcome M. Frontenac to ...

— Salute to Adventurers • John Buchan

... befallen you?" he said to me in a melancholy voice, when he saw the undoubted signs of my zeal for the service. "Where did you thus swill yourself? Oh! good heavens! such ...

— The Daughter of the Commandant • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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