swill
swill Lexical Profile
swill Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An inferior, unpalatable, or poorly made drink, or worthless nonsense and rubbish in general.
"The critic dismissed the cheap, mass-produced wine as undrinkable swill."
Kitchen refuse and scraps mixed with liquid and used as feed for pigs.
"The farmer carried two heavy buckets of swill out to the pigsty every morning."
A large, greedy gulp of liquid, or a quick rinsing with water.
"He took a long swill of cold water from his canteen before continuing up the trail."
• verb
To drink liquid greedily, eagerly, or in large quantities.
"The exhausted runners swilled bottles of electrolyte water at the finish line."
British To wash or rinse out a surface, container, or space by pouring or swirling large amounts of water over or inside it.
"After the market closed, the vendors swilled the cobblestones down with buckets of soapy water."
• Rhymes for swill
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'swilian' or 'swillan', meaning 'to wash out' or 'gargle', from a West Germanic root. The senses relating to drinking greedily and feeding liquid refuse to pigs developed in the 16th century.