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guzzle.

To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈɡʌzəl/
  1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

    informal · transitive
  2. To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

    dated · informal · intransitive
  3. To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.

    broadly · informal · transitive
    This car just guzzles petrol.
  4. To flow copiously; to spray out.

    informal · intransitive · rare
    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.

noun/ˈɡʌzəl/
  1. Drink; intoxicating liquor.

    dated · uncountable
  2. A drinking bout; a debauch.

    dated
  3. An insatiable thing or person.

    dated
  4. A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

    UK · obsolete
  5. 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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