Guzzle vs Scoff - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between guzzle and scoff

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 scoff is to jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision or scoff can be (british) to eat food quickly.

As nouns the difference between guzzle and scoff

is that guzzle is (dated|uncountable) drink; intoxicating liquor while scoff is derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach or scoff can be (south africa) food.

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

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.

scoff

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) scof/skof, of Scandinavian origin. Compare (etyl) skaup, Danish skuffelse(noun)/skuffe(verb) and Old High German scoph.

Noun

(en noun)

Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

* Shakespeare

With scoffs , and scorns, and contumelious taunts.

* 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)

There were sneers, and scoffs , and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways

An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.

* Cowper

The scoff of withered age and beardless youth.

Synonyms

* derision, ridicule * See also

Verb

To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.

* Goldsmith

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff , remained to pray.

Synonyms

* contemn, deride, sneer

Etymology 2

From (etyl).

Noun

(en noun)

(South Africa) Food.

Verb

(British) To eat food quickly.

(South Africa) To eat.

Synonyms

* (eat quickly) (l), (l) (US)