Noun: swill
| Singular | swill |
| Plural | swills |
Sample Sentences
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I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
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This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
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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. [2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:]
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He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
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Kesh's assistant, Wilma, wants to surprise Kesh with some bootlegged swill from Kadara. [2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Task: Beer Run:]
Nouns inflected like swill
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Old English Nouns '
swillan'.
Verbs referencing "swill"
Icelandic Nouns
sull.