Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural See
swill , n., 1.
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- noun
swill ;hogwash
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Examples
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It was glorious waste; down below the casks were swilled and scrubbed out with freshwater, and the swillings drained into the bilge whence the ship's pumps would later have to force it overboard at some cost of labour.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847
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I live in the UK and I swear, nothing has changed: I still see people out partying, boozing, eating in restaurants, white-wine swillings whores (most of London's workforce) still trawling the shops for their crap.
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