Guzzle vs Feed - What's the difference?
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To drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust.
* 1720 , , “Friday; or, the Dirge” in Poems on Several Occasions ,
* 1971 ,
(dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
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* 1684 , , Essay on Translated Verse ,
* 1859 , , The Virginians ,
(by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.
* 2004 , Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report , [http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm]
(dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.
(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
* 1623 , W. Whately, Bride Bush ,
(lb) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
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*Bible, (w) xii.20:
*:If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
(lb) To eat (usually of animals).
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
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*2012 December 25 (airdate), (Steven Moffat), The Snowmen'' (''Doctor Who )
*:DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
(lb) To give to a machine to be processed.
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(lb) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:feeding him with the hope of liberty
To supply with something.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
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*Mortimer
*:Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
To pass to.
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(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Something supplied continuously.
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
As verbs the difference between guzzle and feed
is that guzzle is to drink (or, sometimes, eat) quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gust while feed is (lb) to give (someone or something) food to eat or feed can be (fee).As nouns the difference between guzzle and feed
is that guzzle is (dated|uncountable) drink; intoxicating liquor while feed is (uncountable) food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.guzzle
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Verb
(guzzl)- They spent most of their college days guzzling beer.
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- No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
- What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?
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- A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.
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- Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles , chats the doctor's praise.
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- Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled , devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]
- This car just guzzles petrol.
- China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.
Synonyms
* swig, swillDerived terms
* guzzlerSee also
* guttle * guddleNoun
(en noun)- Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle ! —
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- Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?
- This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) feden, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l), (l).Verb
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Noun
- They sell feed , riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- a satellite feed
- the paper feed of a printer
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.