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Guzzle  v. i.  (past & past part. guzzled, pres. part. guzzling)  To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently. "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 fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey."






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"Guzzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the time; and that made Louie peevish, I suppose. He took it out on me more or less—kept me sweating over that engine every minute he was awake. He wanted a drink too. It was sort of raw the way that Captain would sit there and guzzle and never give the others a bit of it. Louie would watch and watch and swallow hard; and the Captain would watch him back again and grin. They were just like a lot ...
— The Boy Scouts on a Submarine • Captain John Blaine

... "I could guzzle a hogshead of coffee accompanied by vast processions of toasted rolls in columns of four," ...
— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

... does all he can to stop its whirlin' round. If he was king he'd loaf an' sing—and guzzle, I'll be bound, He always shirk de hardest work, an' t'ink he's awful clebbar, But boder his head to earn his bread, Oh! no, he'll nebber, nebber. ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne

... lofty souls of Europe for guidance, we welter in the mud with the lowest and most degenerate. We are beginning to know and appreciate English whiskey, but not English freedom; we know the French grisettes, but not the French sages; we guzzle German beer, but of German wisdom ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani



Words linked to "Guzzle" :   guzzling, imbibe



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