Swill

Definition: Swill

Swill

Noun

1. Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.

Verb

1. Feed pigs.

2. Drink large quantities of (liquid, esp. alcoholic drink); guzzle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Swill \Swill\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Swilled; Swilling.]. (Websters 1913)

Environment

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swill

Drunkenness

Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you.

Food

Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp.

Drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up; lap; swig; swill, chugalug, tipple; (be drunken); empty one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a bottle, wet one's whistle.

Intemperance

Revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.

Crosswords: Swill

Don't let those swill merchants rewrite you. (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

If it is swill (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

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Books

• There's A Fly In My Swill; The Wizard of Id #5 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Dressed to Swill (reference)

• Pissing Out the Poison: Singles and Other Swill (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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[Food adulteration and inspection: Swill milk] / after Thomas Nast. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Our exposure of the swill milk trade. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "swill": have one's swill ♦ pig swill ♦ swill down ♦ swill out. Additional references.

Beginning with "swill": swill-makers.

Ending with "swill": pig-swill.

Albanian

gargarë (gargle, mouth-wash, rinse), bëj gargarë (gargle, rinse out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفاية (chaff, dump, garbage, junk, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, trash, waste), ‏قمامة (garbage, muck, mud, refuse, rubbish, soil, sweeping, sweepings, trash), ‏غسل (bathe, irrigate, irrigation, launder, lave, lotion, rinse, scrub, wash, washing), ‏تجرع بنهم, ‏طعم الخنازير, ‏طعام الخنازير, ‏جرعة من شراب, ‏أسرف في الشراب (dissipate, fuddle, guzzle, soak), ‏أسرف بنهم, ‏شطف الكباية, ‏شطف (rinse, washing). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъпча се с ядене, оплаквам (bemoan, bewail, lament, mourn, rinse, wail, weep), наливам се с питие, лоча (lap, swig), лошо питие, помия (dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pigwash, rinsings, slipslop, slops, wash, wish-wash), плакнене, плакна (rinse), пия жадно, пиене (booze, drink, drinking, guzzle, potation, soak, something to drink), изплакване (rinse, sluice), изплаквам (rinse out). (various references)

Czech

splašky (dishwater, sludge), spláchnout (become flushed, flush, wash), vypláchnutí, vymýt (flush out, wash away, wash off, wash out), pomyje (dishwater, hog-wash, rinsings, wash), pitka (bender, blind, carousal, high jinks, spree), chlastat (booze, guzzle), šlichta (mash, mush, slipslop, slops). (various references)

Danish

mask (brewer'grains, brewing dregs and waste, distiller's wash, draff, dregs of cereals, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, swillings, wort), maltaffald (hogwash), kornmask (hogwash), flydende køkkenaffald (greasy wastes), fedtet affald (greasy wastes), baerme (distilling dregs and waste, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-wash, swillings), affaldsfoder (waste). (various references)

Dutch

swill, spoeling van graanafval (hogwash), spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, draff, drilling fluid, drilling mud, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, lavage, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swillings), vethoudend afvalwater (greasy wastes). (various references)

Farsi 

سرکشیدن (Guzzle, Lap, Quaff), زودخوردن , خیس کردن (Douse, Drown, Ret, Sluice), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Tenure, Tot, Trash). (various references)

Finnish

rasvapitoinen jätevesi (greasy wastes), elintarvikejätteet sianrehuna (hogwash, hog-wash, pig swill, pig-swill, pig-wash, swillings). (various references)

French

passer le verre sous le robinet, pâtée, ordures (sweepings), laver � grande eau, laver, gorgée (swallow), gober (swallow), eaux grasses (pig swill, swillings), drêches de distillerie, déchets alimentaires, déchets, boire avidement, boire � trait. (various references)

German

Gesöff (piss, plonk, tipple), spülen (douche, flush, gargle, irrigate, rinse, scavenge, to flush (out), wash, wash up). (various references)

Greek 

ξεπλένω (rinse, rinse out, scour, wash out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשטוף (flood, inundate, rinse, stream, swab, wash, wash away), שפכים (sewage, slops), פסולת מזון (garbage). (various references)

Hungarian

moslék (dishwater, glop, hogwash, hog-wash, muck, pig's wash, pigwash, slop, wash), vedelés, mosogatólé (dishwater, rinsings, slop), lötty (dishwater, lap, slipslop, slop, ullage, water bewitched, wishy washy), lőre (lap, small wine, ullage), öblítés (flush, lavage, leaching, rinse, wash out, wash-out), öblögetés (rinse). (various references)

Italian

risciacquare (flush, rinse). (various references)

Manx

strulley (douche, rinse; rinsing, wash, wash utensils), strull (rinse, wash down), cooid ny muick. (various references)

Pig Latin

illsway

Portuguese

passar por água (rinse), lavar com bastante água, enxaguar (flush, gargle, rinse, wash), beber em grandes tragos (quaff), beber como uma esponja, beber avidamente, baldear (decant, pour, tranship, trans-ship), águas de cozinha (greasy wastes). (various references)

Romanian

lãturi (dish water, hogwash, kitchen stuff, pig swill, pig's wash, slab, slop, slops, wash), ghiftui (cram, glut, gorge, gormandize, pamper), exces de bãuturã, clãtire, înghiţiturã mare, îmbuiba (cloy, cram, gorge, stuff, surfeit), îmbãta (flush, inebriate, intoxicate, muddle, tipple). (various references)

Russian 

ополаскивать, ополаскивание. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

splaknuti, splačine (hog-wash, pig's wash, pigwash, wash), pomije (dishwater, pig's wash, pigwash, rinsings, slops, wash). (various references)

Spanish

lias de la destilacion de granos (hogwash), lavar (Buddle, dip, do, douse, launder, lave, rinse, shampoo, sluice, wash, wash down, wash out, wash up), emborracharse (become drunk, fuddle, get drunk, tank up, tope), beber a grandes tragos (quaff, swig), bazofia (hog-wash, offal, pigswill), aguas grasas (greasy wastes). (various references)

Swedish

skölja (douche, irrigate, rinse, wash). (various references)

Thai

ใช้น้ำล้าง, ให้เศษอาหารเพื่อเลี้ยงสัตว์, เศษอาหารในครัว, เศษอาหารที่ใช้เลี้ยงสัตว์, การ�"ื่มอึกใหญ่, �"ื่มอย่างตะกละ. (various references)

Turkish

mutfak artıkları (pigswill, pigwash), kalitesiz şey, kafayı çekmek (booze, carouse, drink heavily, go on a bat, have a wet), iğrenç yemek, durulama (rinse, rinsing), domuz yemi (pigswill, pigwash, slop), bulaşık suyu (dishwater, wash), bol suyla yıkamak (scour, sluice, swill out), çok içmek (bib, drink a lot, drink deeply, drink heavily, liquor up, lush, soak, tope), çalkalamak (agitate, churn, rinse, rinse out, rouse, shake, shake up, slosh, swash, swill out, whip up), çalkalama (agitation, churning, rinse, rinsing, swash, wriggle). (various references)

Ukrainian

хлебтати, напиватися (load up, lush), помиї (cat-lap, dishwater, draff, hog-wash, pig's wash, slop), полоскати (gargle, rinse), полоскання (gargle, rinse, rinsing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự rửa (lavation). (various references)

Welsh

agolch. (various references)

carousser. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swill": swilled, swiller, swillers, swilling, swills. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: qwill, selil, seuill, sqill, Suwelo, svill, swail, sweel, swel, swelc, swil, swilc, swild, swilt, swoll. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wills.

-1 letter: ills, sill, will.

-2 letters: ill, lis, wis.

-3 letters: is, li, si.

+1 letter: swills, twills.

+2 letters: billows, inwalls, pillows, sawbill, sawmill, swilled, swiller, wallies, wellies, willers, willets, willies, willows.

+3 letters: blowsily, disallow, indwells, inkwells, lowliest, lowlifes, lowlives, outwills, owlishly, sawbills, sawmills, sidewall, spillway, swelling, swillers, swilling, twibills, waxbills, waybills, wellsite, woollies.

+4 letters: blowflies, bullwhips, disallows, downhills, dwellings, firewalls, glowflies, golliwogs, goodwills, hawkbills, hawksbill, lowlifers, lowlights, lowliness, millworks, polliwogs, sallowing, sallowish, sidewalls, spillways, stairwell, swellfish, swellings, swivelled, twillings, wallabies, wellsites, wildfowls, wildlands, wildlings, williwaus, williwaws, willowers, willywaws, windfalls, windgalls, windmills, wishfully, wistfully, witlessly, wolfishly, woolliest, yellowish.