swill

swill

1. To drink greedily or grossly: “Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux” (W.H. Auden).
2. To flood with water, as for washing.
3. To feed (animals) with swill.

1. A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
2. Kitchen waste; garbage.
3. A deep draft of liquor.
4. Nonsense; rubbish.

Origin: Middle English swilen, to wash out, from Old English swilian; see swel- in Indo-European roots.

Related Forms:

• swillˈer noun