Swill

Pronunciation

• IPA: /swɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Origin

Full definition of swill

Noun

1. a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
2. any disgusting or distasteful liquidI cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
3. anything disgusting or worthlessThis new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
4. a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallowHe took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
5. (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
6. Inexpensive beer

Verb

1. to eat or drink greedily or to excess
• SmollettWell-dressed people, of both sexes, ... devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
• 1913, D. H. Lawrence, ,If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
2. to wash something by flooding with water
• ShakespeareAs fearfully as doth a galled rock
  O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
  Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
3. to inebriate; to fill with drink.
• MiltonI should be loth
  To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence
  Of such late wassailers.
4. to feed pigs swill
• 1921, Nephi Anderson, Dorian Chapter 8"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"

Anagrams

• wills, Wills