guzzle

Meanings

Verb

• To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
• To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
• To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

Noun

• Drink; intoxicating liquor.
• A drinking bout; a debauch.
• An insatiable thing or person.
• A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
• The throat

Related

Similar words

• swig, swill

Origin

• Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier, from gosier, and akin to Italian gozzo.