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guzzle

Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌzəl/

The English word “guzzle” has 9 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
  2. To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
  3. To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
  4. To flow copiously; to spray out.

noun

  1. Drink; intoxicating liquor.
  2. A drinking bout; a debauch.
  3. An insatiable thing or person.
  4. A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
  5. The throat.

Etymology

Probably imitative of the sound of drinking eagerly; or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”). First attested in 1576.

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