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Definitions for Guzzle
ˈgʌz əlguz·zle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. guzzleverb

    drink greedily or as if with great thirst

    "The boys guzzled the cheap vodka"

Wiktionary

  1. guzzlenoun

    Drink; intoxicating liquor.

    Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! Tom Brown

  2. guzzlenoun

    A drinking bout; a debauch.

  3. guzzlenoun

    An insatiable thing or person.

  4. guzzlenoun

    A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

  5. guzzleverb

    To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.

    They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.

  6. guzzleverb

    To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

  7. guzzleverb

    To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

    This car just guzzles petrol.

  8. Etymology: Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from gouziller, gosillier, from gosier, and akin to gozzo.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Guzzleverb

    To swallow with immoderate gust.

    The Pylian king
    Was longest liv’d of any two-legg’d thing,
    Still guzzling must of wine. John Dryden, Juvenal.

  2. To Guzzleverb

    To gormandise; to feed immoderately; to swallow any liquor greedily.

    Etymology: from gut, or gust, to guttle, or gustle.

    Well season’d bowls the gossip’s spirits raise,
    Who while she guzzles chats the doctor’s praise. Wentworth Dillon.

    They fell to lapping and guzzling, ’till they burst themselves. Roger L'Estrange.

    No more her care shall fill the hollow tray,
    To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey. John Gay.

ChatGPT

  1. guzzle

    To guzzle means to drink or consume something quickly, greedily, or in large quantities. It can also mean to use resources or supplies wastefully or extravagantly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Guzzleverb

    to swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently

  2. Guzzleverb

    to swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer

  3. Guzzlenoun

    an insatiable thing or person

  4. Etymology: [OP. gosillier, prob. orig., to pass through the throat; akin to F. gosier throat; cf. It. gozzo a bird's crop.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Guzzle

    guz′l, v.i. to eat and drink with haste and greediness.—v.t. to swallow with exceeding relish.—n. Guzz′ler. [O. Fr. (des-) gouziller, to swallow down; gosier, the throat.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Guzzle in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Guzzle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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