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swill-tubs

swill-tubs is the plural of swill-tub.

Meaning of swill-tub

Noun

swill-tub (plural swill-tubs)

  1. (obsolete) 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:
    reel-pot, tosspot

Questions about swill-tubs

What is swill-tubs the plural of?
Swill-tubs is the plural of swill-tub.

Words near swill-tubs in the dictionary

  1. swill-pail
  2. swill-pails
  3. swill-pot
  4. swill-pots
  5. swill-tub
  6. swill-tubs
  7. swillbellies
  8. swillbelly
  9. swillbowl
  10. swillbowls
  11. swilled

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