guzzle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.
Inflected forms:
form: guzzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guzzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guzzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guzzled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: guzle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: guzzel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: guzzles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guzle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: guzzel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out--
"Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle,
Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle."
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. The seat is an extension of the sofa, the match another Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium.
gloss: To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
intransitive
examples: A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.
Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]
gloss: To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
informal
transitive
examples: This car just guzzles petrol.
2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm
China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.
gloss: To flow copiously; to spray out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
rare
examples: Blood guzzled from the wound.
The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
gloss: Drink; intoxicating liquor.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
gloss: A drinking bout; a debauch.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: An insatiable thing or person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
examples: Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?
This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.
gloss: The throat.
pos: noun
Synonyms: swig
swill
Related words: guttle
guddle
Derived words: glizzy guzzler
guzzledom
guzzle down
guzzle up
guzzler
guzzly
unguzzled
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