Definitions for swill
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwashverb

   wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

2. slop, swillverb

   feed pigs

3. swill, swill downverb

   drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swillnoun

   a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose

2. swillnoun

   any disgusting or distasteful liquid

   I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.

3. swillnoun

   anything disgusting or worthless

   This new tv show is a worthless load of swill.

4. swillnoun

   a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow

   He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.

5. swillnoun

   A badly-thrown pass

6. swillnoun

   Inexpensive beer

7. swillverb

   to eat or drink greedily or to excess

8. swillverb

   to wash something by flooding with water

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. To SWILLverb

   Etymology: swilgan , Saxon.

   1. To drink luxuriously and grossly.

   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.

   2. To wash; to drench.

   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.

   3. To inebriate.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Swillverb

   to wash; to drench

2. Swillnoun

   to drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily

3. Swillnoun

   to inebriate; to fill with drink

4. Swillverb

   to drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess

5. Swillnoun

   the wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings

6. Swillnoun

   large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities

7. Etymology: [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. swill

   A wicker fish-basket. The air-bladder of a fish.--To swill. To drink greedily.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of swill in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of swill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of swill in a Sentence

1. George Orwell:

   Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

2. Jay Edward Adams:

   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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=swill
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Swill
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=swill
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swill
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=swill
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=swill