swill[verb]Synonyms: drink, booze, guzzle, lush (up), soak, swig, swizzle, tank up, tipple, tope, consume, polish off, punish, put away, put down, shift
[noun]Synonyms: refuse, debris, garbage, junk, litter, offal, rubbish, spilth, trash, waste, drink, draft, drag, drain, drench, peg, swig
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
I. swill1 /swɪl/
verb[
Language: Old English;
Origin: swillan]
1. [transitive] British English to wash something by pouring a lot of water over it or into it
swill something away/down/out Get a bucket to swill the yard down.2. [intransitive and transitive] if a liquid swills around or you swill it around, it moves around something
swill around/round He swilled his brandy gently round his glass.3. [transitive] (
also swill down)
informal to drink something in large amounts:
He does nothing but swill beer all day. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. swill2 noun1. [uncountable] food for pigs, mostly made of unwanted bits of human food ⇒
pigswill2. [countable] British English the act of washing something by pouring a lot of water over it
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲