swig
UK/swɪɡ/
swig verb: to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
Verb
swig (third-person singular simple present swigs, present participle swigging, simple past and past participle swigged)
- To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
- That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.
- To suck.
- As sucking Colts leap when they swig the Teat1684, Thomas Creech, Idylliums of Theocritus
- To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
- Synonyms:
- sweating
Noun
swig (plural swigs)
- Drink, liquor.
- A long draught from a drink.
- take a swig of whisky
- Jerry put his brandy bottle at the side of his pillow,—kindly informing him that he would have an opportunity of taking a few more swigs before he went down, for the water was only up to her bends at present.1830, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in The King’s Own. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 183
- A person who drinks deeply.
- A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
- Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
swig meaning in Kannada
swig in Kannada
- ನುಂಗುವುದು, ಮುಕ್ಕುಳಿ, ಗುಟುಕು, ಅತಿಯಾಗಿ ಮದ್ಯಪಾನಮಾಡು, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗುಟುಕುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕುಡಿ, ಗಟಗಟನೆ ಕುಡಿ
Examples of swig in a sentence
- He looked up, however, at my coming, knocked the neck off the bottle like a man who had done the same thing often, and took a good swig, with his favourite toast of "Here's luck!"1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Israel Hands”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC...
- And he took the last swig out of the pint.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- He pours it full of OJ and takes a huge swig, swallows, and repeats.2014, Michael Griffo, Starfall (The Darkborn Legacy), New York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 26:
Synonyms of swig
Forms of swig
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | swigs |
| present participle | swigging |
| past participle | swigged |
| past | swigged |
| Noun | |
| plural | swigs |
Origin of swig
Unknown, mid 16th c. Perhaps connected with Old English swelgan (“to swallow”).
Words formed from swig
Words that rhyme with swig
Questions about swig
- What does swig mean?
- Swig means to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
- What is swig in Kannada?
- Swig in Kannada is ನುಂಗುವುದು, ಮುಕ್ಕುಳಿ, ಗುಟುಕು. See Swig meaning in Kannada.
- How do you use swig in a sentence?
- He looked up, however, at my coming, knocked the neck off the bottle like a man who had done the same thing often, and took a good swig, with his favourite toast of "Here's luck!"
- What part of speech is swig?
- Swig can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce swig?
- Swig is pronounced /swɪɡ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of swig?
- The past tense of swig is swigged.
Words near swig in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: swig (page history and authors); swig (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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