Definitions for swill

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Spelling: [swil]

IPA: /swɪl/

Swill is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in swill (illsw).

Definitions for swill

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 with object)

1. to drink (something) greedily or to excess; guzzle.
2. to feed (animals) with swill:
3. Chiefly British. to wash by rinsing or flooding with water.

verb (used without object)

1. to drink greedily or excessively.

Origin of swill

before 900; Middle English swilen (v.), Old English swilian, swillan

Examples for swill

What, you wish to get into my house to gormandise and swill at my expense.

They water their horses, and then swill their faces in the dregs.

One day I cooked a squash, putting the parings in a swill pail.

That's absurd, for you can feed a cow on swill and still get fourteen per cent.

Jones, annoyed at the swill tossed about, had turned from him.

I'd as soon think of telling the Pope of Rome to empty a pail of swill as I would him.

The bread I was able to eat, but could not contrive to drink the swill.

And that swill the Chinaman cooked at dinner-time—what about that?

He does not breathe the tainted air rising from the swill in the door-yard.

“Finish your swill, and then we can talk,” said Rawley, carelessly.