guzzle
Drink; intoxicating liquorDrink; intoxicating liquor.
» Tom guzzled his beer.
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5 senses(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
(dated)A drinking bout; a debauch.
(dated)An insatiable thing or person.
The throat.
(UK, obsolete)A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
Examples
4 sentencesTom guzzled his beer.
Let's see how much beer they guzzle tonight.
A giraffe can guzzle many gallons of water in one go.
As the three countries' growing economies guzzle more fuel, the leaders agreed to cooperate on developing alternative sources of energy.
Origin
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosilliProbably 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| Singular | guzzle |
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uncountable
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable