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Definition of Swill down
1. Verb. Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swill Down
Literary usage of Swill down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1885)
"Do not (try to) gulp down soup with vegetables in it, nor add condiments to it;
do not keep picking the teeth, nor swill down the sauces. ..."
2. China of the Chinese by Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner (1920)
"picking the teeth, nor swill down the sauces. If a guest add condiments, ...
If he swill down the sauces [which should be too strong to be swallowed largely ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To sweep down, to swill down. To clean up. To wash up, to put in order. To clean
out. To purify, to make tidy. Also, to win another's money fell his pocket ..."
4. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1885)
"Do not (try to) gulp down soup with vegetables in it, nor add condiments to it;
do not keep picking the teeth, nor swill down the sauces. ..."
5. China of the Chinese by Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner (1920)
"picking the teeth, nor swill down the sauces. If a guest add condiments, ...
If he swill down the sauces [which should be too strong to be swallowed largely ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"To sweep down, to swill down. To clean up. To wash up, to put in order. To clean
out. To purify, to make tidy. Also, to win another's money fell his pocket ..."
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