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Squirt vs Swill - What's the difference?

squirt | swill |

As nouns the difference between squirt and swill

is that squirt is an instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream while swill is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

As verbs the difference between squirt and swill

is that squirt is to be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice while swill is to eat or drink greedily or to excess.

squirt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
  • A small, quick stream; a jet.
  • * 2007 , Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 , page 9,
    • Chances are you?ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
  • (slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
  • * 1946 , , 2005, page 606,
    • He was still there when I came up, a squirt' with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his '''squirt''' face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the ' squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.
  • (UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
    • Hey squirt ! Where you been?
  • * 1986 , Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island'', entry in ''Dictionary of American Children?s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit , page 137,
    • Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt ” of twelve, and the boys? activities come out.
  • * 2010 , Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride , Bethany House Publishers, US, page 66,
    • How the child managed to converse and fold at the same time was a marvel, yet the shirt lay in a tidy rectangle by the time she came up for air.
    “Thanks, squirt .” He winked at her and she giggled.
  • (slang) Female ejaculate

    • Synonyms

    * (instrument that forcefully ejects liquid) * * (annoyingly pretentious person) * (small child)

    Derived terms

    * sea squirt * squirt bottle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
    • The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
  • * 1865 , , The Book of Werewolves , 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121,
    • His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.
  • (of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
  • * 1985 , The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia?s Most Deadly Creatures , 2002, Murdoch Books, page 88,
    • It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.
  • * 2005 , Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation'', Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, ''Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia , 2nd Edition, page 171,
    • When administering the medication, the RN should place the syringe tip along the side of the mouth and slowly squirt the medicine toward the buccal vestibule, not toward the throat.
  • * 2011 , James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures , unnumbered page,
    • Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child?s mouth.
  • To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
  • * 2010 , Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children , page 81,
    • Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
  • (figuratively) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • (intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
  • * 2010 , Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She?ll Never Forget , page 9,
    • Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.

    Synonyms

    * (to be ejected in a rapid stream) * (to cause to be ejected in a rapid stream) * (to eject a rapid stream at) * (to speak rapidly) *

    Related terms

    * squirter

    Anagrams

    * quirts

    swill

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
  • any disgusting or distasteful liquid
    • I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
  • anything disgusting or worthless
    • This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
  • a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
    • He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
  • Inexpensive beer

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat or drink greedily or to excess
  • * Smollett
    • Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
  • to wash something by flooding with water
  • * Shakespeare
    • As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
  • to inebriate; to fill with drink.
  • * Milton
    • I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
  • to feed pigs swill
  • * 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
  • *:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"

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