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Definition of 'swill'English
Noun
( en-noun)
a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
any disgusting or distasteful liquid
- I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
anything disgusting or worthless
- This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
- He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
Inexpensive beer
Verb
( en-verb)
to eat or drink greedily or to excess
* Smollett
- Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
*1913 ,
*:If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
to wash something by flooding with water
* Shakespeare
- As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
to inebriate; to fill with drink.
* Milton
- I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
to feed pigs swill
* 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
*:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"
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