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Guzzies vs Guzzles - What's the difference?

guzzies | guzzles |

As a noun guzzies

is .

As a verb guzzles is

(guzzle).

guzzies

English

Noun

(head)

    • guzzles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (guzzle)

    • guzzle

    English

    Verb

    (guzzl)
  • 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 , , “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 ,
    • What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
  • (dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  • * 1649 , , Google Books
    • A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
  • * 1684 , , Essay on Translated Verse , Google Books
    • Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles , chats the doctor's praise.
  • * 1859 , , The Virginians , Google Books
    • Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled , devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]
  • (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 , [http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm]
    • China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

    Synonyms

    * swig, swill

    Derived terms

    * guzzler

    See also

    * guttle * guddle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
    • Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle ! —
  • (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
  • (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
  • (obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen .
  • * 1598 , , The Scourge of Villanie Google Books
    • Means't 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.