Définition de « swill » en Anglais

noun

1. (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

2. (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.

   • I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.

3. (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.

   • This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.

4. (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.

   • He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.

5. (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.

6. (ultimate frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.

verb

1. (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.

   • 1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9, O’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth. “Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared.

2. (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.

3. (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.

4. (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.

   • 2000, Hanif Kureishi, “Goodbye, Mother” in Granta 69, Spring 2000, p. 119, The smell, the internal workings of every human being, the shit, blood, mucus swilling in a bag of flesh, made him mad. He felt he was wearing the glasses the stage hypnotist had given people, but instead of seeing them naked, he saw their inner physiology, their turbulence, their death.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.

6. (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).