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verb

Swill v. t. (past & past part. swilled; pres. part. swilling)

To wash; to drench. (Obs.) "As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean."

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. "Well-dressed people, of both sexes,... devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider."

To inebriate; to fill with drink. "I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers."

Swill v. i. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.

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"Swilling" Quotes from Famous Books

... of well dressed people, of both sexes, sitting on the covered benches, exposed to the eyes of the mob; and, which is worse, to the cold, raw, night-air, devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cyder, I can't help compassionating their temerity; white I despise their want of taste and decorum; but, when they course along those damp and gloomy walks, or crowd together upon the wet gravel, without any other cover than the cope of Heaven, listening to a song, which ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... coffee. I had read that sour milk was also conducive to longevity, and that if one would drink it faithfully he might live to be a hundred years old. A friend to whom I had confided this information said that between swilling down buttermilk a hundred years and being dead, he preferred ...

— Confessions of a Neurasthenic • William Taylor Marrs