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Is swill a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word swill is a Scrabble US word. The word swill is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is swill a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word swill is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1W4I1L1L1

Is swill a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word swill is a Words With Friends word. The word swill is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

SWILL,WILLS,

4-letter words (3 found)

ILLS,SILL,WILL,

3-letter words (3 found)

ILL,LIS,WIS,

2-letter words (3 found)

IS,LI,SI,

You can make 11 words from swill according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of swill

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Definitions and meaning of swill

swill

Etymology

From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /swɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

swill (countable and uncountable, plural swills)

  1. (collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
    Synonyms: hogwash, slops, pigswill
  2. (by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
  3. (by extension, figurative) Anything disgusting or worthless.
  4. (informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
    Synonym: swig
  5. (informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
    Coordinate terms: hooch, rotgut
  6. (Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.

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Verb

swill (third-person singular simple present swills, present participle swilling, simple past and past participle swilled)

  1. (transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
    • 1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9,[2]
      O’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth.
      “Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared.
  2. (transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.
  3. (transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
  4. (intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface.
    • 2000, Hanif Kureishi, “Goodbye, Mother” in Granta 69, Spring 2000, p. 119,[6]
      The smell, the internal workings of every human being, the shit, blood, mucus swilling in a bag of flesh, made him mad. He felt he was wearing the glasses the stage hypnotist had given people, but instead of seeing them naked, he saw their inner physiology, their turbulence, their death.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink.
  6. (transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).

Anagrams

  • Wills, wills

Source: wiktionary.org