swill

Meaning

Noun

1. A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
2. Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
3. Anything disgusting or worthless.
4. (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
5. (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
6. A badly-thrown pass.

Verb

1. To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
2. To wash (something) by flooding with water.
3. To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
4. To move around or over a surface.
5. (obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
6. To feed swill to (pigs).

Synonyms

slop

guzzle

rinse

gulp

slops

pigswill

swill down

pigwash

mash

drink

🥤

wash out

feed

rack up

riot

scour

sewage

soak

stagnant water

trash

wash

🧽

washing

drink to excess

pig-swill

waste

large drink

wash with water

ablution

drink greedily

booze

carry

dirty

dishwater

draff

fuel

garbage

🗑️

hogwash

nonsense

nourish

quaff

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swɪl/

Etymology

From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.