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Chugging vs Drinking - What's the difference?

chugging | drinking |

As verbs the difference between chugging and drinking

is that chugging is present participle of lang=en while drinking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between chugging and drinking

is that chugging is the sound of something that chugs while drinking is an act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.

chugging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of something that chugs.
  • * 1997 , Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West (page 5)
    • From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings .

    drinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
  • * 1853 , Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
    • At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.