guzzle
/ˈɡʌzəl/
guzzle verb: to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
Verb
guzzle (third-person singular simple present guzzles, present participle guzzling, simple past and past participle guzzled)
- To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.1720, John Gay, “Friday; or, the Dirge”, in Poems on Several Occasions
- They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out--
"Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle,
Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle."1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 22
- To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
- A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes
- Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.1684, Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
- This car just guzzles petrol.
- China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, https://web.archive.org/web/20160313225853/http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm
- To flow copiously; to spray out.
- Blood guzzled from the wound.
- The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
Noun
guzzle (plural guzzles)
- Drink; intoxicating liquor.
- Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
- A drinking bout; a debauch.
- An insatiable thing or person.
- A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
- Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie
- This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.1623, W. Whately, Bride Bush
- The throat.
guzzle meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
guzzle in Urdu
- ہڑپ کر نگلنا, چڑھا جانا
guzzle in Malayalam
- devour, gobble, bolt
- അത്യാർത്തിയോടെ ഭുജിക്കുക, കബളമായി വിഴുങ്ങുക, ഗുളുഗുളു ശബ്ദത്തോടെ വിഴുങ്ങുക, വാരിവലിച്ചുതിന്നുക, അത്യാർത്തിയോടെ തിന്നുക, മടുമടാ കുടിക്കുക
- swallow, gulp down, quaff
- വായ് നിറയെ വിഴുങ്ങുക, വിഴുകുക, ധൃതിയിൽ വിഴുങ്ങുക, ഒറ്റവീർപ്പിന് അകത്താക്കുക, ഒറ്റവലിക്കു കുടിച്ചുതീർക്കുക, പെട്ടെന്നുവിഴുങ്ങുക
guzzle in Kannada
- ಗಟಗಟನೆ ಕುಡಿ
guzzle in Arabic
- to drink (or sometimes eat) voraciously
- أَسْرَفَ فِي اَلشَّرَاب ʔasrafa fī š-šarāb
More languagesFewer languages
- guzzle in Malay
- menggelogok
Examples of guzzle in a sentence
- What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?1971, Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley, “Oompa Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do”, in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory:
- Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians:
Synonyms of guzzle
Forms of guzzle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | guzzles |
| present participle | guzzling |
| past participle | guzzled |
| past | guzzled |
| alternative form (obsolete) | guzle |
| alternative form (obsolete) | guzzel |
| Noun | |
| plural | guzzles |
Origin of guzzle
Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.
Words formed from guzzle
Words that rhyme with guzzle
Questions about guzzle
- What does guzzle mean?
- Guzzle means to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- What is guzzle in Urdu?
- Guzzle in Urdu is ہڑپ کر نگلنا, چڑھا جانا. See Guzzle meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use guzzle in a sentence?
- What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
- What part of speech is guzzle?
- Guzzle can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce guzzle?
- Guzzle is pronounced /ˈɡʌzəl/.
- What is the past tense of guzzle?
- The past tense of guzzle is guzzled.
Words near guzzle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: guzzle (page history and authors); guzzle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guzzle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); guzzle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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