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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux” ( W.H. Auden).
  2. v. To flood with water, as for washing.
  3. v. To feed (animals) with swill.
  4. v. To drink or eat greedily or to excess.
  5. n. A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
  6. n. Kitchen waste; garbage.
  7. n. A deep draft of liquor.
  8. n. Nonsense; rubbish.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To rinse; drench; wash; bathe.
  2. To drink greedily or to excess.
  3. To fill; swell with fullness.
  4. To wash; rinse.
  5. To drink greedily; drink to excess.
  6. n. Drink; liquor, as drunk to excess: so called in contempt.
  7. n. Liquid food for animals; specifically, the refuse or leavings of the kitchen, as given to swine.
  8. n. A keeler to wash in, standing on three feet.
  9. n. A wicker basket of a round or globular form, with open top, in which red herrings and other fish and goods are carried to market for sale.
  10. n. Specifically A basket of 100 herrings.
  11. n. A shade.
  12. n. Liquid in general; especially a liquid that leaks, gushes, or swills in.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
  2. n. any disgusting or distasteful liquid
  3. n. anything disgusting or worthless
  4. n. a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
  5. n. Ultimate Frisbee A badly-thrown pass
  6. n. Inexpensive beer
  7. v. to eat or drink greedily or to excess
  8. v. to wash something by flooding with water

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To wash; to drench.
  2. v. To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
  3. v. To inebriate; to fill with drink.
  4. v. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.
  5. n. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
  6. n. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. feed pigs
  2. v. drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
  3. n. wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

Etymologies

  1. Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb Utterly morose
    after eight of Bass,
    I review the gross
    sub-species and freaks
    swilling at the bar.

    - Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983 Jul 1, 2008

  • bilby The pigs are hungry today, oh boy. Jun 23, 2008

  • travismcdermott c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille. Jun 23, 2008

  • travismcdermott c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille. Jun 23, 2008

  • travismcdermott c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G3 Gargarizet, gagul suille. Jun 23, 2008

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