swill

Meanings

Noun

• A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
• Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
• Anything disgusting or worthless.
• A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
• Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
• A badly-thrown pass.

Verb

• To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
• To wash (something) by flooding with water.
• To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
• To move around or over a surface.
• To inebriate; to fill with drink.
• To feed swill to (pigs).

Origin

• From Middle English swilen, from Old English swillan, swilian, from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-. Related to English swallow.