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guzzle

guzzle (third-person singular simple present guzzles, present participle guzzling, simple past and past participle guzzled)

1. To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.

   They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.

   • 1720, John Gay, “Friday; or, the Dirge” in Poems on Several Occasions, Google Books

     No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.

   • 1971, Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley, “Oompa Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do”, from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

     What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?

2. (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, Google Books

     A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

   • 1684, Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse, Google Books

     Well-seasoned bowls the gossips spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctors praise.

   • 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, Google Books

     Every theatre had its footmans gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]

3. (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

   This car just guzzles petrol.

   • 2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, [1]

     China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

guzzle (plural guzzles)

1. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.

   Where squanderd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seald Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown

2. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
3. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
4. (obsolete, UK, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie Google Books

     Meanst thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?

   • 1623, W. Whately, Bride Bush,

     This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.

Definizione dizionario guzzle

gozzovigliare

trangugiare

Altri significati:

(intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

(dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.

(dated) An insatiable thing or person.

To drink voraciously

(obsolete, UK, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called '''guzzen''' .

(by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust; said especially of alcohol consumption.

(dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.