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Definition: Swig |
SwigNoun1. A large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp". Verb1. Strike heavily, esp. with the fist or a bat; "He slugged me so hard that I passed out". 2. To swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught: "My car gulped 20 gallons without even wiping its mouth.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swig" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | SWIG. A hearty draught of liquor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SwigSynonyms: draft (n), draught (n), gulp (v), quaff (v), slog (v), slug (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Swig |
| Specialty definitions using "swig": tope. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad picked up the bottle and took a swig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Swig" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.92% of the time. "Swig" is used about 98 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.92% | 94 | 33,845 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.06% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 98 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "swig": swig off ♦ take a good swig ♦ take a swig. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
camp swig | 12 |
swig | 10 |
bartini swig | 5 |
fe santa swig | 5 |
camp swig uahc | 5 |
swanky swig | 5 |
camp newman swig | 3 |
swig toledo | 3 |
company swig | 2 |
extension howto perl swig | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "swig"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tel (chord, clothes line, line, staple, string, wire), gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, draught, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, thirst, traction), e kthyer (turn up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جرعة كبيرة, إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, tuck, tuck in, wolf), إبتلع (bolt, engulf, gulf, gulp, overwhelm, pouch, swallow, swoop), شرب بشراهة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гълтам (absorb, devour, get down, gulp, pouch, run away with, slummock, sup, swallow), голяма глътка (gulp), лоча (lap, swill), пия на големи глътки (quaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 痛饮 (Boozed, boozed-up, boozing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pořádný doušek, lok (draught, gulp, mouthful, potion), lít do sebe, hlt (drop, gulp, swallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | brække ud i en ende (to swig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stijfzetten (to swig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | جرعه طولانی نوشیدن , جرعه (Godown, Gulp, Potion, Quaff, Shot, Sip), اشامیدن (Bib, Drink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | strekata (to swig), kiristää purjeennostin (to swig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lamper, lampée, engloutir (swallow), avaler d'un trait. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | saufen (booze, drink, drink to excess, drinking, guzzle, quaff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καταρροφώ (engulf, guzzle, ingulf), πίνω άφθονα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל'ימ" ארוכ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagy korty, nagy húzás, korty (draught, godown, gulp, lap, nip, potion, pull, sip, sup, swill, tiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gelogok (gulp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sorsata (gulp, pull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sluggey (absorption, devour, devouring, draw, engulf, gorge, gorging, gulp, gulping, guzzle, guzzling, pulling, slug, suck down; gobbling, sucking, swallow, swallowing), sluggag (gulp, swallow), slug (draught, swallow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igsway trago (draught, gulp, swallow, tiff), gole (draught, gulp, pull, sup, tiff), golada (gut), beber uma golada, beber um trago. (various references) bea (bib, booze, carouse, consume, drink, drink to excess, finish, have a drink, imbibe, sip, take, take up), înghiţiturã (drain, dram, draught, drink, go, gulp, pull, sip, sup, swallow), înghiţi (bolt, devour, engulf, get down, get over, gobble, ingurgitate, lump, pocket, swallow). (various references) большой глоток (gulp). (various references) de rrsach (a swig of liquor). (various references) piti požudno, gutljaj (dram, drink, gulp, nip, sip, swallow, toothful). (various references) trago (bottle, dram, drink, drop, gulp, sip, snorter, swallow), tragantada, beber a grandes tragos (quaff, swill), beber (boose, booze, drink, imbibe, indulge, partake of, put back, wet one's whistle). (various references) stjälpa i sig. (various references) การ"ื่มอึกใหญ่ (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references) kafayı çekme (boozing, drinking), kafaya dikmek (quaff, quaff off, slosh down), içmek (belt down, drink, drinking, eat, have a drink, imbibe, indulge, knock back, propose, pull, slosh, slosh down), içme (drinking, potation), bir yudumda içmek, bir yudum (dash, sip, snifter, tot), bir dikişte içme. (various references) великий ковток, попивати (sip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swig": swigged, swigger, swiggers, swigging, swigs. (additional references) | |
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"Swig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awig, Cswip, dwig, Eswi, ewig, iswi, saig, seig, sewi, Sgwyd, shig, sigg, siig, skig, slig, soig, sowig, spig, ssig, stig, stwig, sweg, Sweif, swi, swib, swid, swif, swik, swin, swip, swir, swit, swiv, swog, swug, wsi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swig" (pronounced swi"g) |
| 3 | -w i" g | twig, whig, wig. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wigs. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-s-w" | |
-1 letter: wig, wis. | |
-2 letters: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-s-w" | |
+1 letter: swigs, swing, twigs, whigs, wings. | |
+2 letters: bewigs, gawsie, jigsaw, sawing, sewing, sowing, swinge, swings, swingy, weighs, wigans, wights, wising, wrings. | |
+3 letters: awnings, bagwigs, bigwigs, bowings, bowsing, dowsing, earwigs, gawkies, gawkish, godwits, jigsawn, jigsaws, lawings, lowings, misgrew, misgrow, mowings, rowings, scowing, sewings, shawing, shewing, showing, skewing, slewing, slowing, snawing, snowing, spewing, stewing, stowing, swaggie, swaging, swaying, swigged, swigger, swingby, swinged, swinger, swinges, swingle, swiping, swiving, tawsing, twinges, upswing, waggish, washing, wasting, waxings, wedgies, weights, westing, whinges, widgets, wigeons, wiggles, wigless, wiglets, wigwags, wigwams, wingers, wirings, wiseguy, wishing, wisping, wissing, wisting, wrights. | |
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