SWILL
What does "SWILL" mean?
Kitchen waste and liquid food fed to pigs; slop.
Meanings
- A semi-liquid mixture of food scraps and waste used as feed for pigs. The farmer carried a bucket of swill to the sty.
- Drink, especially of low quality or consumed greedily. He wouldn't touch the cheap swill they served at the bar. informal
- To drink greedily or in large gulps. They swilled lager all afternoon in the sun. informal
- To rinse or move liquid around in a container. She swilled the glass with water before refilling it.
Word origin
From Old English 'swilian' (to wash, rinse out); the sense of pig-feed comes from washing out a vessel and pouring the rinsings to the animals.
Remember it
SWILL rhymes with 'spill' and 'fill' - sloppy liquid that sloshes around.
A little poem
Bucket tipped at dawn-
yesterday's good supper now
the pigs' grateful feast.
haiku
Wordplay
- The food critic and the pig agreed on the leftovers - one called it swill, the other called it lunch.
What it teaches
One creature's swill is another's feast; worth depends entirely on who's hungry.
Quick facts
What does SWILL mean?
Kitchen waste and liquid food fed to pigs; slop.
Is SWILL a valid word?
Yes — SWILL is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SWILL?
SWILL has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SWILL come from?
From Old English 'swilian' (to wash, rinse out); the sense of pig-feed comes from washing out a vessel and pouring the rinsings to the animals.
What can SWILL teach us?
One creature's swill is another's feast; worth depends entirely on who's hungry.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.