swill Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
    pigwash; slop; slops; pigswill.
  2. verb feed pigs
    slop.
  3. verb drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
    swill down.

WordNet

Swill transitive verb
Etymology
OE. swilen to wash, AS. swilian.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Swilled ; present participle & verbal noun Swilling
Definitions
  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. Properly, to drink like a pig. See Swill, n. 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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess. South.
Swill noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913