guzzle.
To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
Meaning & usage
To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
This car just guzzles petrol.
To flow copiously; to spray out.
Blood guzzled from the wound.
The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
Where this word comes from
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.
A drinking bout; a debauch.
An insatiable thing or person.
A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
The throat.
Where this word comes from
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.
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