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swylbolle

swylbolle is the alternative spelling 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...

Forms of swylbolle

pluralswylbolles

Questions about swylbolle

What is swylbolle the alternative spelling of?
Swylbolle is the alternative spelling of swill-bowl.

Words near swylbolle in the dictionary

  1. Swyer syndrome
  2. Swyer-James syndrome
  3. Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome
  4. Swygert
  5. Swygerts
  6. swylbolle
  7. swylbolles
  8. Swynford
  9. Swynnerton
  10. Swynnertons
  11. swype

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