guzzle
verb
- drink heavily
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌzəl/
noun
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.
- Drink; intoxicating liquor.
“Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown”
- A drinking bout; a debauch.
- An insatiable thing or person.
- A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
“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.”
- The throat.
verb
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.
- To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
“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."”
- To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
“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.”
- To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
“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.”
- To flow copiously; to spray out.
“Blood guzzled from the wound.”
“The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.”