swill
/swɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill."
- "This new TV show is a worthless load of swill."
- "They have helped foster a corrosive, mean-spirited, angry and divisive atmosphere that May and her lieutenants are too weak to challenge. Into this swill comes Leave financier-in-chief, Arron Banks, who last week announced he was setting up a “Patriotic Alliance” to attempt to unseat 100 Remain-supporting MPs."
- "He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words."
- "Kesh's assistant, Wilma, wants to surprise Kesh with some bootlegged swill from Kadara."
- "[…] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […]"
Etymology
From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swilen, swillan, *swilljan, *swiljaną, *swel-
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.