What is the difference between swig and drink?
swig | drink |
To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
(obsolete) To suck.
* Creech
(nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line (also: sweating )
(en noun), (Appalachian)
A long draught from a drink.
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(nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
(ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
* Spenser
* Thackeray
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* Thackeray
* Shakespeare
To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
* Dryden
To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
* Taylor (1630)
A beverage.
A (served) alcoholic beverage.
The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take'' or ''have .
A type of beverage (usually mixed).
Alcoholic beverages in general.
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Any body of water.
(uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
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Swig is a synonym of drink.
As verbs the difference between swig and drink
is that swig is to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff while drink is (ambitransitive) to consume (a liquid) through the mouth.As nouns the difference between swig and drink
is that swig is a long draught from a drink while drink is a beverage.swig
English
Verb
(swigg)- That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.
- The lambkins swig the teat.
Synonyms
* (to drink) chug, gulp, guzzle, quaff * See alsoNoun
- And he took the last swig out of the pint.
- (Marryat)
Synonyms
* (a drink) draught, sip * See alsoAnagrams
* Appalachian Englishdrink
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Alternative forms
* drinck (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
- There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
- the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
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- Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
- I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
- Let the purple violets drink the stream.
- to drink the cooler air
- My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
- Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
- And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.
Synonyms
* gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also * (consume alcoholic beverages) drink alcoholDerived terms
* drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink upEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).Noun
George Goodchild
- For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink