swill
To drink greedily or to excessTo drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
» I swilled a whiskey and water.
Meaning
6 senses(transitive)To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
(transitive)To wash (something) by flooding with water.
(transitive)To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
(intransitive)To move around or over a surface.
(transitive)To feed swill to (pigs).
feed pigs
(obsolete, transitive)To inebriate; to fill with drink.
Examples
4 sentencesI swilled a whiskey and water.
Where did you buy this horrible swill?
ruГде ты купил это жуткое пойло?
Even the finest fete becomes mere hogs swill.
Swill the teapot out with water.
Origin
From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swiliaFrom Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
swills, swilling, swilled, swilledPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsSynonyms
2 synonyms- drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink):swill down
- feed pigs:slop
Word family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle