† swill-poughswill-pown.
Obsolete.
= dilling n.; also attributive (transferred).
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Besot, a dilling, or swill-pough.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxvi. 217 Swillpow cock.
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