swilling

Verb

swill (third-person singular simple present swills, present participle swilling, simple past and past participle swilled)

1. (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
   • […] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […]1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 188
2. (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
   • As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O’erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
   • Jimmie looked lovingly at the flask, smelt it, and then, placing it next his ear, swilled it round to hear the splash of liquor.1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 6, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 69
4. (intransitive) To move around or over a surface.
   • […] before them, between the high banks of the Vaal, they saw only a world of brown water, streaked with white froth, hurling down upon them. It rose above the foot-board and swilled to the level of the seat.1906, Perceval Gibbon, “The Coward”, in Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, New York: McClure, Phillips, pages 222–223
5. (obsolete, transitive) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
   • […] I should be loath
     To meet the rudenesse, and swill’d insolence
     Of such late Wassailers;1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...
6. (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
   • “Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?”1921, Nephi Anderson, chapter 8, in Dorian, Salt Lake City, page 84

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