Swill vs False - What's the difference?
swill | false |
a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
any disgusting or distasteful liquid
anything disgusting or worthless
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
Inexpensive beer
to eat or drink greedily or to excess
* Smollett
*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
to inebriate; to fill with drink.
* Milton
to feed pigs swill
* 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
*:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun swill
is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.As a verb swill
is to eat or drink greedily or to excess.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.swill
English
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
- This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
- He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
- As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
- I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.
Anagrams
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}