swill-tub
swill-tub noun: a drunkard.
Noun
swill-tub (plural swill-tubs)
- A drunkard.
- But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and...1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus...
Synonyms of swill-tub
Forms of swill-tub
| plural | swill-tubs |
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Origin of swill-tub
From swill + tub.
Questions about swill-tub
- What does swill-tub mean?
- Swill-tub means a drunkard.
- What part of speech is swill-tub?
- Swill-tub is a noun.
- What is the plural of swill-tub?
- The plural of swill-tub is swill-tubs.
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