slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash
(noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
swill, swill down
(verb) drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
slop, swill
(verb) feed pigs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
swill (countable and uncountable, plural swills)
(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
Synonyms: hogwash, slops
(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
(by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
Synonym: swig
(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
• (waste food given to pigs): pigswill, slops
swill (third-person singular simple present swills, present participle swilling, simple past and past participle swilled)
(transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
(transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
(transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
(intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
(transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
(transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
• Wills, wills
Source: Wiktionary
Swill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Swilling.] Etym: [OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.]
1. To wash; to drench. [Obs.] As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.
2. Etym: [Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n.]
Definition: To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett.
3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.
Swill, v. i.
Definition: To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.
Swill, n.
1. The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; -- called also swillings.
2. Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 April 2025
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