Meaning

5 senses

  1. (dated, uncountable)Drink; intoxicating liquor.

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

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

  3. (dated)An insatiable thing or person.

  4. The throat.

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

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom guzzled his beer.

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

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

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

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Origin

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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Forms

plural: guzzles
Singularguzzle

uncountable

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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