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Meanings of
swilling
in English
Portuguese
bebida
Catalan
glop
Spanish
trago
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The drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly.
gulping
guzzling
Portuguese
bebida
Usage of
swilling
in English
1
The
swilling
cocktail of hormones in my system lurched at the thought.
2
He toyed with his glass,
swilling
around the remains of his drink.
3
Can't go two hours without
swilling
back a pint of freezing-cold Tennents?
4
What threat to Aelon is a god who spends eternity
swilling
ale?
5
They had grown accustomed to the incomprehensible banter of these
coffee
-
swilling
lawyers.
6
The water was
swilling
back and forth with each uneven roll.
7
In bed at ten, knackered, and my dreams involved
lager
-
swilling
priests on bikes.
8
So does this mean we should all start
swilling
Two-Buck Chuck?
9
Their opponents retired, presumably intimidated by the sheer groundswell of Union
Jack
-
swilling
fervour.
10
But the Yankee's capacity for
swilling
tea and coffee was prodigious.
11
Put your light out and turn in, you confounded
swilling
pig-you!
12
Hank was entirely soaked, and coffee-colored water was
swilling
around his pants' legs.
13
The grating was gone, and two seamen were
swilling
away the remaining blood.
14
Not what they were used to every bloody day, not some
beer
-
swilling
redneck.
15
Ken Clarke is a
brandy
-
swilling
,
cigar-chomping favourite of both the left and the right.
16
Nobody said too much about Bangladeia and its
blood
-
swilling
geriatrics.
Other examples for "swilling"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
swilling
swill
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
swill around
swill ale
swill beer
swill back
swill tea
More collocations
Translations for
swilling
Portuguese
bebida
Catalan
glop
trago
Spanish
trago
Swilling
through the time
Swilling
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common