swill

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /swɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

swill (plural swills)

1. a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
2. any disgusting or distasteful liquid

   I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.

3. anything disgusting or worthless

   This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.

4. a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow

   He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.

5. (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
6. Inexpensive beer

Translations

a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose

• Czech: pomeje (cs) pl
• Dutch: slobber (nl) m
• French: soupe (fr)
• Hungarian: moslék (hu)
• Macedonian: помија (mk) (pómija) f

• Portuguese:

  (Brazil): lavagem (pt)

• Russian: помои
• Spanish: tichate (es) m

any disgusting or distasteful liquid

• Dutch: bocht (nl)
• Macedonian: помија (mk) (pómija) f

• Russian: помои

anything disgusting or worthless

• Hungarian: mosogatólé (hu)

a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow

Verb

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

1. to eat or drink greedily or to excess
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 8

     If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.

2. to wash something by flooding with water

Anagrams

• wills, Wills