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swill-bowls

swill-bowls is the plural of swill-bowl.

Meaning of swill-bowl

Noun

swill-bowl (plural swill-bowls)

  1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
    • But nothing like to that hath been shewed since in the English church by the spiritual tyrant of Rome and his mitred termagants, at the provocation of their oiled swill-bowls and blind Balaamites. For they most cruelly brent those innocents which did but only read the testament of God in their...1547, John Bale, The Second Examination of Anne Askewe; republished in Christmas, Henry, editor, Select Works of John Bale, The Parker Society edition, Cambridge: University Press, 1849, Britannish...

Questions about swill-bowls

What is swill-bowls the plural of?
Swill-bowls is the plural of swill-bowl.

Words near swill-bowls in the dictionary

  1. swill milk
  2. swill up
  3. swill-bellies
  4. swill-belly
  5. swill-bowl
  6. swill-bowls
  7. swill-box
  8. swill-flagon
  9. swill-flagons
  10. swill-pail
  11. swill-pails

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