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How to pronounce “swill”
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Pronunciation guide for swill
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of swill with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century
that was very dangerous, called swill milk.
- Definition summary
- (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
Example 1 of 3
How to pronounce swill
Steven Johnson: How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century
that was very dangerous, called swill milk.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “swill”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
- (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
- (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
- (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
- (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
- (ultimate frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
- (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
- (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
- (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
- (transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
- (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).
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