swill

English[edit]

From Middle English swī̆len ‎(“to wash away”).

swill ‎(plural swills)

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

I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
anything disgusting or worthless

This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow

He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
Inexpensive beer

mixture of solid and liquid food scraps

any disgusting or distasteful liquid

anything disgusting or worthless

large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow

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

to eat or drink greedily or to excess
- Smollett
  
  Well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
- 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.
to wash something by flooding with water
- Shakespeare
  
  As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
to inebriate; to fill with drink.
- Milton
  
  I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
to feed pigs swill
- 1921, Nephi Anderson, Dorian Chapter 8
  
  "Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"