swill

[ swil ]

noun

1. liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
2. kitchen refuse in general; garbage.
3. any liquid mess, waste, or refuse; slop.
4. a deep draught of liquor.
5. contemptibly worthless utterance or writing; drivel.

verb (used without object)

1. to drink greedily or excessively.

verb (used with object)

1. to drink (something) greedily or to excess; guzzle.
2. to feed (animals) with swill:

   to swill hogs.

3. Chiefly British. to wash by rinsing or flooding with water.

swill

/ swɪl /

verb

1. to drink large quantities of (liquid, esp alcoholic drink); guzzle
2. troften foll byout to drench or rinse in large amounts of water
3. tr to feed swill to (pigs, etc)

noun

1. wet feed, esp for pigs, consisting of kitchen waste, skimmed milk, etc
2. garbage or refuse, esp from a kitchen
3. a deep draught of drink, esp beer
4. any liquid mess
5. the act of swilling

Derived Forms

• ˈswiller, noun

Other Words From

• swiller noun
• un·swilled adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of swill¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English verb swilen “to wash, swirl,” Old English swilian, swillan

Word History and Origins

Origin of swill¹

Old English swilian to wash out

Example Sentences

Jonathan Swill, a 27-year old master's student from New Jersey, told the BBC he was moving to Israel after graduation, having turned down a place in a doctoral programme at Columbia.

From BBC

Jonathan Swill, a 27-year old master's student from New Jersey, told the BBC that he is moving to Israel after graduation, having turned down a place in a doctoral programme at Columbia.

From BBC

Today, we publish swill because we cannot get anything better – lest we risk going to prison.

From Salon

By the end of the movie Swayze’s "cooler" has stopped a JCPenney department store from ruining the town’s all-American tanginess, or whatever, and heads off to spruce up some other fetid swill hole.

From Salon

This is the swill you want from Black authors?

From New York Times