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swill

  [swil] ,
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–noun
1. liquid or partly liquid food for animals, esp. kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
2. kitchen refuse in general; garbage.
3. any liquid mess, waste, or refuse; slop.
4. a deep draught of liquor.
5. contemptibly worthless utterance or writing; drivel.
–verb (used without object)
6. to drink greedily or excessively.
–verb (used with object)
7. to drink (something) greedily or to excess; guzzle.
8. to feed (animals) with swill: to swill hogs.
9. Chiefly British. to wash by rinsing or flooding with water.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME swilen (v.), OE swilian, swillan

Related forms:
swiller, noun
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swill   (swĭl)   
v.   swilled, swill·ing, swills

v.   tr.

  1. To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).

  2. To flood with water, as for washing.

  3. To feed (animals) with swill.

v.   intr.
To drink or eat greedily or to excess.
n.  

  1. A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.

  2. Kitchen waste; garbage.

  3. A deep draft of liquor.

  4. Nonsense; rubbish.


[Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.]
swill'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
swill

  1. n.
    liquor. : The swill they serve here is better than you can get elsewhere.
  2. n.
    a drink of liquor. : Here, you can have a little swill of mine.
  3. tv. & in.
    to drink liquor. : He swilled a whole case of beer yesterday. Isn't he joyful yet?
  4. n.
    any nasty food or drink. : Let's go over to the ptomaine-domain and get our evening swill.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

swill  (v.)
O.E. swilian, swillan "to wash, gargle," with no certain cognates, but probably from P.Gmc. *sweljanan, related to the root of swallow (v.). Meaning "drink greedily" is from c.1530; the noun sense of "liquid kitchen refuse fed to pigs" is 1553, from the verb.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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