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Swilling   /swˈɪlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Swill  v. t.  (past & past part. swilled; pres. part. swilling)  
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."
2.
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. "Well-dressed people, of both sexes,... devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider."
3.
To inebriate; to fill with drink. "I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers."


Swill  v. i.  To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.





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"Swilling" Quotes from Famous Books



... enjoying themselves. Pleasant, if they had always enjoyed themselves in an innocent fashion. That many of them did so, it is only charitable to believe. And while the fast and foolish, the gross and wicked were swilling and roystering in evil localities, the generous, manly, gentle souls gratified the matrons with whom they were billeted by walking with them and their daughters through the streets, or into the nearest meadow; or perhaps they treated them ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler


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