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Eat vs Guzzle - What's the difference?

eat | guzzle |

As verbs the difference between eat and guzzle

is that eat is to ingest; to be ingested while guzzle is to drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.

As a noun guzzle is

(dated|uncountable) drink; intoxicating liquor.

eat

English

Verb

  • To ingest; to be ingested.
  • #(lb) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
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  • #*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat' parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they ' eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
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  • #(senseid) To consume a meal.
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  • # To be eaten.
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  • To use up.
  • #(lb) To destroy, consume, or use up.
  • #:
  • #*(William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
  • #*:His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
  • # To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
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  • #:
  • #*(Bruce Willis) in the movie (The Last Boy Scout)
  • #*:No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
  • # To consume money or (other instruents of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.
  • #:
  • #*From the movie
  • #*:Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
  • To cause (someone) to worry.
  • :
  • To take the loss in a transaction.
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  • *From the movie (Midnight Run)
  • *:I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
  • (lb) To corrode or erode.
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  • To perform oral sex on someone.
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  • Synonyms

    * (consume) consume, swallow; see also * (cause to worry) bother, disturb, worry * (eat a meal) dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch

    Derived terms

    * don't shit where you eat * eater * eat crow * eatery, eaterie * eat humble pie * eat in * eating * eat into * eat like a bird * eat like a horse * eat like a pig * eat my shorts * eat one's hat * eat one's Wheaties * eat one's words * eat out * eat pussy * eats * eat shit and die * eat someone alive * eat someone's lunch * eat up * eatworthy * pie-eater * you are what you eat * what's eating you?

    See also

    * drink * food * edible

    Statistics

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    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.