swilln.1
/swɪl/, U.S. /swɪl/ northern and East Anglian.† 2. A washing-tub. Obsolete.
1.
a. A large shallow basket, made roughly with strips of oak, unpeeled willows, or the like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] > made of strips of wood
swill1395
wash-basket1881
chip1922
spelk1949
spale1959
1395 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 604 Pro ij cannis et j sqwill, subulco, vj. d.
1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 218 vj sand pokes with iij great swilles.
1650 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (N.S.) 9 291 The Miller..shall not lette any moulter stay in swilles..above half a peck.
1701 in W. O. Blunt 1000 Years Church in Chester-le-Street (1884) 103 Paid for a swill for ye cuishon 00 00 03.
1811 R. Willan in Archaeologia 17 160 (W. Riding Words) Swill, a wicker basket, used by washer-women.
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Swill, a round basket of wicker work; generally carried on the head.
1894 H. D. Rawnsley Lit. Assoc. Eng. Lakes I. 123 Here he worked at his baskets and swills for five and a half years.
b. spec. A basket in which fish, esp. herrings, are landed or carried to market; hence as a measure, containing from 500 to 660 herrings. †Formerly also for oysters.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fish
swill1352
junketa1382
fish-leepc1440
weel?a1475
hask1579
swad1602
roaring1615
rope basket1811
kit1847
cawl1865
roarer1887
fish-basket1955
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish > container for
cade1337
swill1352
stick1615
cran1797
machine1883
trunk1883
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish
stickOE
mease1332
warp1436
bind1477
wisp1521
cast1587
strikea1690
turna1690
cran1797
toss1851
swill1894
1352 Excheq. Acc. Q.R. Bundle 20. No. 27 (P.R.O.) De id. ob. solutis pro uno sqwille empto.
1398 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 164 Ceaux qe vendount oistres desormes facent vendre par swilles.
1657 in Sir C. Sharp Chron. Mirab. (1841) 33 (Wolsingham) George Greeinewell, the swill maker.
1853 Househ. Words VI. 425/2 At Yarmouth..the fish are landed in certain convenient and quaintly-shaped baskets, called ‘swills’.
1856 Illustr. London News 12 Apr. 374/1 (Yarmouth) A number of baskets called ‘swells’, somewhat [similar] in shape to a baker's basket, but considerably longer, with a broad flat handle in the centre, at top.
1894 R. Leighton Wreck Golden Fleece 14 Many's the time I've risked my life for a swill o' mackerel or a line of haddocks.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > vessel for washing clothes in
wash-bowla1529
buck1530
boyne1532
washing-tub1560
wash-tub1602
bucking-tub1615
buck-vat1620
washing-bowl1622
swill1624
possing tub1659
suds-tub1805
bucking-vat1822
bucking-keir1823
peggy tub1823
poss-tub1829
pounding barrel1853
posskit1855
wash-boiler1875
washpot1926
1624 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 147 (Yorks.) In the Washhouse. Tubbs 3. Swills 3. Soaes 3. 2 cloth baskettes.
1674 J. Ray N. Country Words A Swill, a keeler to wash in, standing on three feet.
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swilln.2
/swɪl/, U.S. /swɪl/ 1.
a. Liquid, or partly liquid, food, chiefly kitchen refuse, given to swine; hog-wash, pig-wash.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > wash
swine meat1434
hogwashc1450
swash1528
swillinga1529
swilla1570
wash1585
washmeat1688
slop1805
pigswill1862
a1570 in Coll. Black-letter Ballads & Broadsides (1867) 131 I serue your swyne with draffe and swyl.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 138/1 Swyl and draffe, wont to be geuen to their hogs.
1626 N. Breton Fantasticks in Wks. (1879) II. 13/2 The Hogges cry till they haue their swill.
1666 J. Alleine Let. xxvi, in Life (1672) 93 Every Swine will have his swill.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 249 'Tis good to give them [sc. pigs] such swill as you have every Morning and Evening to make them come home to their Coats.
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. viii. 218 The milk and the fat pot-liquor and meal are, when put together, called, in Long Island, swill.
1864 H. Jones Holiday Papers 45 Many a time have I watched the yardman baling out swill for the pigs with a ladle.
1913 G. G. Coulton in Rep. 7th Ann. Meeting Hist. Assoc. 13 The pig bred for pork, to which everything is given indiscriminately and simultaneously, in the form of swill or slop.
b. figurative.
ΚΠ
1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obed. To Rdr. sig. B iv He..geueth vs leaue, according to our demerites, to be fed with the swil and draffe, of masing masses.
1554 J. Hooper Let. 2 Feb. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1061/1 I am swill and sincke of sin.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vii. ii. 555 And yet our country~man Harding, leauing the cleare waters of truth, hath swallowed the same swill, as the Iewell of our Church hath taught him.
a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. v. 107 Throw yt Course Branne, with the Swill of Humors, a Mash made For Sickly Tirants.
1901 W. Churchill Crisis i. x You will not think of us as foreign swill, but as patriots.
c. transferred. A liquid or partly liquid mess, a slop.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [noun] > a semi-fluid substance or mass
sklucec1430
pap1435
slurryc1440
cream1540
batter1601
slabbermenta1620
swill1665
soss1691
porridge1700
cremor1701
sludge1702
semifluid1731
sludder1796
sloppery1832
slob1885
slabber1887
slather1928
gunk1949
1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 47 It contemns all those large Pectoral Swils, long Syrups, and Electuaries.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 499 If the state of the ingesta is usually rather that of a sour fermented ‘swill’.
1903 C. J. C. Hyne McTodd iv. 87 The place was full of steam, too, from the swill slopping against the boiler fires.
2.
a. Copious or heavy drinking; liquor, esp. when drunk to excess; †a draught or swig (of liquor).
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun]
overdrinkeOE
drinkingc1200
excessc1386
bibbinga1400
bollingc1540
boozingc1540
bousingc1540
swillingc1563
tippling1567
carousing1582
swinking1590
bezzling1598
swill1602
swink1611
overdrinking1616
popination1623
sottishness1648
fuddling1665
toping1668
bibbership1670
abuse1732
dram-drinking1772
dramminga1790
potation1808
spree1811
muzzling1828
bibbery1831
Bacchanalianism1855
Bacchanalism1858
smiling1858
bibulation1882
tanking1891
reeler1950
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of
strong drink?1490
drink1535
whiff1605
tip1612
wet1719
swilla1731
booze1732
slug1756
whitter1786
intoxication1799
O (or oh) be joyful1823
sneezer1823
north-wester1830
drain1836
damp1837
smile1839
snifter1844
liquor1860
rosiner1871
tiddlywink1880
bevvy1889
gargle1889
snort1889
jolt1904
smahan1914
tincture1914
taste1919
piss1925
drinkie1947
smash1959
shant1960
1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing xlv Weare not a feather in a showre of raine, Nor swagger with a Swiser for his swill.
1641 H. L'Estrange Gods Sabbath 132 To spend the hole day in swinish swill, lascivious wantonnesse,..and in the true service of Satan.
1654 R. Codrington tr. Justinus Hist. xxiv. 339 The Gauls falling to their swill of Wine as to their prey.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 152 As they swim in mutual swill.
a1731 G. Waldron Descr. Isle of Man 163 in Compl. Wks. (1731) As soon as he had recruited himself with a hearty Swill of Brandy.
1846 Ld. Stanley in Croker Papers (1884) III. 87 A pail of ale, with a bottle of gin in it, from which every man takes a swill.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. i. 7 Eminent swill of drinking, with the loud coarse talk supposable, on the part of Mentzel and consorts did go on.
b. six o'clock swill, the customary bout of hasty drinking in public houses at the end of the working day, occasioned by the former six-o'clock-closing regulations. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout > type of
upsy Friese1590
boot-carouse1598
six o'clock swill1955
1951 A. Upfield New Shoe 93 It wanted ten minutes to the fatal hour of six, and the enforced National Swill was in full flood.]
1955 A. Ross Australia 55 81 This evening ritual, known amongst Australians as the ‘six o'clock swill’.
1961 F. Hardy Hard Way 73 The [prison] yard was filling steadily, mostly with drunks, and a few victims of the six o'clock swill.
1970 D. Horne Next Australia 160 The ‘six o'clock swill’ before the lavatory-tiled bars closed was one of the continuing tests of masculinity.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.See also swill v. Compounds 1, Compounds 2; also swill-tub n.
a.
swill-barrel n.
ΚΠ
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxxvi. 469 The wasteful excesses she had seen in the minister's swill-barrel.
swill-bucket n.
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1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 311 Enoch sat helpless on a swill-bucket.
1975 Country Life 13 Mar. 666/1 Those happy-go-lucky swill-bucket days.
swill-cistern n.
ΚΠ
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §866 Swill-cisterns and tanks for holding liquid food.
swill-house n.
ΚΠ
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §866 Gloss. Swill house, place for preparing pigs' food.
swill-pail n.
ΚΠ
1741 Boston Weekly News-let. 12 Feb. 2/1 Taken up by John Morey, Esq...a swill-Pale, otherwise called a Hog-Pale.
1889 Fernald in Voice (N.Y.) 3 Oct. Buy green apples at the highest market price, and throw them into the swill-pail.
b.
swill-engrossing adj.
ΚΠ
1631 T. Fuller Davids Sinne xxviii. sig. Bv Swil-ingrossing Swine, with greedy throats.
C2. † swill-milk n. U.S. Obsolete inferior milk produced by cows fed entirely on swill (obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > inferior milk
swill-milk1853
1853 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. 28 684 The whole business [is] in the hands of the swill milk manufacturers.
1894 P. L. Ford Hon. Peter Stirling 72 The press began, too, a crusade against the swill-milk dealers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
swillv.
/swɪl/, U.S. /swɪl/ 1. absolute.1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. iii. vi. 83 Kezia, the good-hearted, bad-tempered housemaid,..had begun to scrub and swill.
a. transitive. To wash or rinse out (a vessel or cavity), or, now usually, to cause water to flow freely upon (a surface, floor, etc.) in order to cleanse it; †formerly also in wider use, to wash, bathe, drench, soak.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)]
swillc725
wash900
laveOE
bewash1589
elavate1599
to wash up1756
to wash down1877
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)]
swillc725
berinsea1618
sluice1755
flush1862
sloush1889
slooshy1907
sloosh1912
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > be getting washed [verb (intransitive)] > rinse
swillc725
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) G 3 Gargarizet, gagul suille.
c1000 Lambeth Ps. vi. 7 [6] Lauabo..lectum meum lacrimis meis, ic ðwea vel ic swilige..min bed mid minum tearum.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 24 Seoh þurh linenne clað & swile mið þæt geagl.
a1300 Body & Soul in Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 239 Þe þridde day shal flowe a flod þat al þis world shal hyle; boþe heye & lowe, þe flume shal hit swyle.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 919 Ful wel kan ich dishes swilen.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 5826 He meked hym self ouer skyle, Pottes and dysshes for to swele [v.r. swyle].
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 745/2 I swyll, I rynce or clense any maner vessell, je raince.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 6 With wyne theire venison was swyld.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. C3v The siluer Trent..whose tumbling waues the flowrie Meadowes swill.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 14 A galled Rocke..Swill'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean. View more context for this quotation
1638 H. Rider tr. Horace Odes & Epodes iii. 12 He in Tiber's streams hath swill'd His oyly shoulders.
1647 C. Harvey Schola Cordis 153 Swelter'd and swill'd in sweat.
1801 ‘Gabrielli’ Mysterious Husband III. 77 There, slip these on,..and I will swill out your other stockings in the morning.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia II. viii. 19 The patient had carefully swilled out her stomach with water.
1842 T. Martin in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 652/2 Ducking and diving into the basin-stand, and swilling his face and neck with oceans of water.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 69 The dairy, which has to be constantly ‘swilled’ out and mopped clean.
b. To stir (something) about in a vessel of liquid; to shake or stir (liquid) in a vessel by moving the vessel about.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > shake together or up > a liquid > in a vessel
swill1580
swiggle1943
1580 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Bk. Medicines agaynst Venome in Ioyfull Newes (new ed.) f. 138 It is good to haue a peece of a right Unicornes horne in a smal cheyne of golde, that it may bee swilled continually in the water that shalbee dronke.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 59 They swill the vrine round about the basen.
c1650 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 73 Then Sir Tristeram tooke powder forth of that box, & blent it with warme sweet milke; & there put it vnto that horne, & swilled it about in that ilke.
c. To carry by a current of water, to wash down, against something, etc. Also, to pour or carry (liquid) freely down.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or fact of pouring or being poured > pour [verb (transitive)]
ayetOE
yetOE
hieldc1200
shed?c1225
pourc1330
peera1522
brew1581
swill1605
sile1787
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > cause to flow [verb (transitive)] > carry (away) by flowing
wash1362
ravisha1500
float1606
horse1698
swill1850
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 337 Blood, teares, bowers, towers; she spils, swils, burnes, and razes.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iii. xx. 33 The worst..distilling To divers pipes, the pale cold humour swilling, Runs down to th' Urine-lake.
1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 155 The first rains..swill the soil into the rock beneath.
1902 Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 6/4 He clutched at everything he could feel. He was ‘swilled’ against a post.
2. intransitive. To move or dash about, as liquid shaken in a vessel; to flow freely or forcibly; to flow or spread over a surface.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (intransitive)]
swill1647
flush1789
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > copiously
wallc893
bolkena1300
railc1390
gush?a1400
hella1400
walterc1400
yraylle1426
downpoura1522
pour1538
bolk1541
flush1548
sluice1593
teem1753
flux1823
swill1884
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > away > in different directions > when applied to or poured on a surface
swimc1400
run?c1450
swill1896
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 392 The acceleration or retardation of the motion of the Earth will make the sea fluctuate or swill, like water in a shaken vessel.
1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. xiii. §6. 465 The Spirit of Nature in some regards leaves the motion of Matter to the pure laws of Mechanicks, but within other bounds checks it, whence it is that the Water does not swill out of the Moon.
1884 R. Paton Sc. Church vii. 62 Than if their heads were channels for any rubbish to swill through that happened to be in the way.
1895 G. Parker Adventurer of North 183 The river went swishing, swilling past.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 69 O rainbow-gay the red pools lay that swilled and spilled and spread.
3. To drink freely, greedily, or to excess, like hogs devouring ‘swill’ or ‘wash’.figurative and in extended use.1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon 2273 The sacred tombes and alter stones our blood haue dronke and swyld.1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. i. 15 Those that the Sea hath swill'd.1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 97 That bitter cup which..they should have been swilling and swallowing down for ever.1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health iv. 113 In the tempting bowl Of poison'd Nectar sweet oblivion drink.1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 79 That the brutal Celt may swill Drunken sleep with savage will.
a. transitive. (Occasionally with down, formerly also in.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)]
bibc1400
swill1563
tipple1581
tun1589
bezzle1612
tope1654
soak1697
bibulate1767
to go a bust1939
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely
bibc1400
waught?a1513
quaff1558
swill1563
carouse1580
tipple1581
bibble1582
tun1589
bousea1612
tope1654
fuddle1756
demolish1864
to throw back1943
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Agst. Gluttony sig. Eee ij b He left not his banqueting, but in one night swilled in so much wyne, that he fell into a feuer.
1575 J. Awdely Fraternitye of Vacabondes (new ed.) sig. B3v A licoryce knaue that will swill his Maisters drink.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 91 Their women swill Wine and Beere daily, and in great excesse.
1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 32 They drank of our beer.., but not with the gust and delight they swill down their own.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 474. ⁋6 I would be brisk in swilling Bumpers.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iv. 391 Swilling down great Quantities of cold watery Liquors.
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiii. 45 Let Friar John..Roast hissing crabs, or flaggons swill.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. ii. 43 These empty stoups..which my nephew and his drunken comrades have swilled off.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxvi. 279 I sat swilling tea.
1853 N. Hawthorne Circe's Palace in Tanglewood Tales (1879) 138 How they swilled down the liquor.
b. intransitive (esp. to tipple, booze).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor > freely
wassailc1300
waught?a1513
quaff1520
to drink (it) all outa1522
bibblea1529
quaught1530
to set cock on the hoopa1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
to drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse1567
troll-the-bowl1575
to take one's rousea1593
pot1622
tope1668
toot1676
compotate1694
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
birlea1800
to splice the mainbrace1805
jollify1830
brimmer1838
to give it a bit of a nudge1966
nudge1966
c1563 [implied in: Jyl of Breyntfords Test. sig. A.iiiv Come you nere, & take parte of our swyllyng. (at swilling n. 2)].
a1583 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibard. MS.) 494 Vnto þe cocatrice in ane creill they send it [sc. the crocodile]; quhair, sevin ȝeiris, it sowkit, sweillit, singit and sarie.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. E3v He would not banquet, and carowse, and swill Amongst the Students.
1639 J. Fletcher et al. Bloody Brother ii. ii. sig. D2 Then let us swill boyes for our health, Who drinks well, loves the commonwealth.
1678 R. L'Estrange tr. Of Happy Life xxi. 275 in Seneca's Morals Abstracted (1679) When he had Swill'd..to a..Beastly Excess, he was carry'd away..to Bed.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 266 To swill and swallow at a trough.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) iii. 66 Ye eat and swill, and sleep, and gourmandize.
1845 C. Dickens Chimes ii. 60 Not that you should swill, and guzzle, and associate your enjoyments, brutally, with food.
1887 R. Jefferies Amaryllis at Fair vii They went along..en route to swill and smoke and puff and guffaw somewhere else.
4.
a. transitive. To cause to drink freely; to supply with abundance or excess of liquor; to fill with drink; reflexive to drink one's fill. Const. with, †in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > supply large amount
swill1548
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
fordrenchc1000
indrunkena1300
mazec1390
distemper1491
whittle1530
swill1548
inebriate1555
disguise1560
intoxicatea1566
tipple1566
overtake1577
betipple1581
seethe1599
fuddlec1600
fox1611
wound1613
cupa1616
fuzzle1621
to gild overa1625
sousea1625
tip1637
tosticate1650
drunkify1664
muddle1668
tipsy1673
sop1682
fuzz1685
confound1705
mellowa1761
prime1788
lush1821
soak1826
touch1833
rosin1877
befuddle1887
slew1888
lush1927
wipe1972
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Appotus, well wette with drynke, welle wasshed or swilled with drynke, almost drunke.
1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Ii Wee must not swill and ingurgitate our stomacks so ful.
1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 105 Sweet-lipp'd Angell-Imps, that swill their throats In creame of Morning Helicon.
1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 154. ⁋13 Several Souls, who..flock about the Banks of the River Lethe, and swill themselves with the Waters of Oblivion.
1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband i. ii. 35 I wonder you can encourage the Boy to swill so much of that lubberly Liquor.
1772 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley Tour to London I. 81 Tied in a file to posts at the extremity of the grass-plat, they [sc. cows] swill passengers with their milk, which.. is served..in little mugs.
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. xi. 241 Till they can show there's something they love better than swilling themselves with ale.
b. To supply or feed (a hog) with swill.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > feed or fatten pigs
brawn1655
swilla1722
to send hogs a shackling1790
pork1877
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 411 Hogs should be well swilled with wash before they are put up for fatting.
Compounds
C1. with adverb.† swill-down adj. Obsolete that swills down liquor, addicted to excessive drinking.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking
drunkensomea1300
drunkelew1362
drunksomec1475
drunken1548
boozing1569
boozy1592
bousy1592
moisty1593
unsober1611
upsy-friesy1617
moist1619
sottish1632
swilling1633
bibacious1663
intemperate1680
swill-bellied1680
swill-down1693
wet1699
potative1737
compotatory1817
alcoholic1845
drinking1856
bibulous1861
on the drink1865
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxi. 256 Such a Swill-down Bouser.
C2. with noun in objective relation.† swill-belly n. Obsolete a great drinker.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Swill-belly, a great Drinker.
swill-bellied adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking
drunkensomea1300
drunkelew1362
drunksomec1475
drunken1548
boozing1569
boozy1592
bousy1592
moisty1593
unsober1611
upsy-friesy1617
moist1619
sottish1632
swilling1633
bibacious1663
intemperate1680
swill-bellied1680
swill-down1693
wet1699
potative1737
compotatory1817
alcoholic1845
drinking1856
bibulous1861
on the drink1865
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies vii. 116 These Brawny swill-belly'd Monks.
swill-flagon n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. xi. 343 Out, thou eternal swill-flagon!
swill-pot n. one who swills a bowl (flagon, pot), an excessive drinker, a toper.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxxiii. 152 That unworthy Swill-pot Grangousier.
Derivatives
swilled adj. /swɪld/ filled with liquor, inebriated, drunken.
/swɪld/ filled with liquor, inebriated, drunken.ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1637 J. Milton Comus 7 I should be loath To meet the rudenesse, and swill'd insolence Of such late Wassailers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
'Swillint.
= (by) God's will int. at god n. and int. Phrases 3b(a), used as an asseveration.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > miscellaneous
depardieuc1290
by God's namec1330
by God's roodc1330
by God's eyes1340
God's soul1345
for God's sakec1386
cock's soulc1405
God's armsc1405
by God's dooma1425
(by) (God's) nailsa1500
by God's fast?1515
God's lord?1520
God's sacramenta1529
God's dominusc1530
by God's crown1535
God's bread1535
God's gown1535
God's guts1543
of God's word?1550
God's hat1569
Gods me1570
marry (a) Godc1574
God's malt1575
God's ludd?1577
God's sacring?1577
God's sokinges?1577
trunnion?1577
(by) God's will1579
God's teeth1580
'Shearta1596
God's light1598
by God's me1599
'Snails1599
'Slight1600
God's diggers1602
'Swill1602
od's mea1616
od's my lifea1616
'Sprecious1631
'Sbores1640
odso1660
for sake('s) sake1665
Gad's precious1677
heartlikins1677
od1681
'Sdiggers1687
(Lord) love you (also your heart)1707
God's fury1748
heartikins1751
S'fire1791
nom de Dieu1848
'strewth1892
Lord lumme1895
lumme1898
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H2v Alb... How shall I purchase loue of Rossaline? Feli. S'will, flatter her soundly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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