Значение

значений: 5
  1. (устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Drink; intoxicating liquor.

    Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown

  2. (устаревшее)A drinking bout; a debauch.

  3. (устаревшее)An insatiable thing or person.

  4. The throat.

  5. (Британия, устаревшее)A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

Примеры

предложений: 4
  1. Tom guzzled his beer.

  2. Let's see how much beer they guzzle tonight.

  3. A giraffe can guzzle many gallons of water in one go.

  4. As the three countries' growing economies guzzle more fuel, the leaders agreed to cooperate on developing alternative sources of energy.

Происхождение

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosilli

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.

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Формы

мн. число: guzzles
Ед. числоguzzle

неисчисляемое

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