guzzle

Meaning

Verb

1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
2. (dated, intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
3. (broadly) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
4. (rare) To flow copiously; to spray out.

Noun

1. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
2. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
3. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
4. (British, obsolete) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
5. The throat.

Synonyms

gulp

drink

🥤

swill

gobble

devour

bolt

swallow

swig

wolf

🐺

quaff

eat

🍽️

eat up

eat greedily

gormandize

guttle

wolf down

engulf

squander

take

tipple

drink to excess

scarf out

ingulf

shovel in

garbage down

chugalug

bolt down

booze

consume

dine

dissipate

fuddle

gobble up

gorge

in

luxury

overeat

polish off

raven

satiate

sip

smoke

Translations

fressen

🍽️

bouffer

🍽️

avaler

engloutir

verschlingen

saufen

🥤

tragar

lamper

verprassen

siffler du vin

dévorer

ingurgiter

bâfrer

écluser

manger

🍽️

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡʌzəl/

Etymology

Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).