swill

Plural: swills

Noun

wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
Anything disgusting or worthless.
A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
A badly-thrown pass.

Verb

Verb Forms: swilled, swilling, swills

To drink something, especially excessively and quickly.
feed pigs
drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)
To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
To wash (something) by flooding with water.
To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
To move around or over a surface.
To inebriate; to fill with drink.
To feed swill to (pigs).

Examples

He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
He would swill cheap coffee, hoping for a jolt of energy to strategize his next Scrabble move.
I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill down, hogwash, swig

Scrabble Score: 8

swill: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
swill: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swill: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

swill: valid Words With Friends Word