What does swill mean?
Definitions for swill
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word swill.
Princeton's WordNet
slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwashverb
wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
slop, swillverb
feed pigs
swill, swill downverb
drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
Wiktionary
swillnoun
a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
swillnoun
any disgusting or distasteful liquid
I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
swillnoun
anything disgusting or worthless
This new tv show is a worthless load of swill.
swillnoun
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
swillnoun
A badly-thrown pass
swillnoun
Inexpensive beer
swillverb
to eat or drink greedily or to excess
swillverb
to wash something by flooding with water
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Swillnoun
Drink, luxuriously poured down.
Etymology: from the verb.
Give swine such swill as you have. John Mortimer.
Thus as they swim, in mutual swill the talk
Reels fast from theme to theme. James Thomson.To SWILLverb
Etymology: swilgan , Saxon.
The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar
That spoil’d your summer fields and fruitful vines,
Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough
In your embowel’d bosoms. William Shakespeare, Richard III.The most common of these causes are an hereditary disposition, swilling down great quantities of cold watery liquors. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.
Such is the poet, fresh in pay,
The third night’s profits of his play;
His morning draughts till noon can swill,
Among his brethren of the quill. Jonathan Swift.As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with me the wild and wasteful ocean. William Shakespeare.With that a German oft has swill’d his throat,
Deluded, that imperial Rhine bestow’d
The generous rummer. Philips.I should be loth
To meet the rudeness and swill’d insolence
Of such late wassailers. John Milton.He drinks a swilling draught; and lin’d within,
Will supple in the bath his outward skin. Dryden.
Wikipedia
Swill
Swill is liquid (or partially liquid) food for animals.The term can also be used as a derogatory label for any drink meant for human ingestion perceived as unpalatable or nearly so.
ChatGPT
swill
Swill is a term used to refer to waste food used to feed pigs or other animals, kitchen scraps, particularly liquid or semi-liquid food waste. It could also refer to a poor-quality, cheap, or unpalatable drink or any kind of product or idea that is regarded as inferior or low quality.
Webster Dictionary
Swillverb
to wash; to drench
Swillnoun
to drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily
Swillnoun
to inebriate; to fill with drink
Swillverb
to drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess
Swillnoun
the wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings
Swillnoun
large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities
Etymology: [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Swill
swil, v.t. or v.i. to drink greedily or largely, to drink habitually, to drench one's self with: to wash, rinse.—n. a large draught of liquor: the liquid mixture given to swine.—ns. Swill′er; Swill′ing.—n.pl. Swill′ings, hog wash. [A.S. swilian, to wash; cf. Sw. sqvala, to gush.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
swill
A wicker fish-basket. The air-bladder of a fish.--To swill. To drink greedily.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of swill in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of swill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of swill in a Sentence
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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- pomejeCzech
- tichate, bazofiaSpanish
- soupeFrench
- खंगालनाHindi
- moslék, mosogatóléHungarian
- 폭음Korean
- помијаMacedonian
- bocht, slobberDutch
- lavagemPortuguese
- помоиRussian
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