swill

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"Finish your swill, and then we can talk," said Rawley carelessly.

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  1. transitive verb To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux” (W.H. Auden).
  2. transitive verb To flood with water, as for washing.
  3. transitive verb To feed (animals) with swill.
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  • Since they drank the first accidental batch of fermented swill, they party like it was 10,000BC and put 2 and 2 together, "Hey, Gronk … this stuff is better than that crappy water from the Vistula … and I don't have to hunt or farm in the morning … In fact, I don't have to eat, I can just drink this loaf of bread and be like that lazy fat-ass yonder." —  The Buckeye Blog
  • Amazon has made Kindle software yet Google fights back with Book Search for the iPhone and now the swill is muddied further by the most unlikely of partnerships. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Anheuser already owns a majority of the Mexican brewer behind swill-grade Corona, but the controlling stake is in the hands of Antonino Fernandez, the ninety - year-old patriarch whose family runs Modelo. —  Dealbreaker
  • They don't need STARBUCK'S at $4.00 per cup of chichory swill, or come exoctic lattee. —  Latest Articles
  • I have seen a Rat on the top of a swill tub at a pigsty, when the swill has been about ten inches from the top of the tub. —  Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also swyll; from Middle English swilien, swele, swilen, from Anglo-Saxon swilian, wash; cf. Swedish sqvala, gush, Icelandic skyla, Danish skylle, swill, rinse, wash (see squall).
  2. from swill, v.
  3. Origin obscure; perhaps another use of swill, n., 3.
  4. Cf. swale.
 

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