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Word entry · 6 letters

guzzle

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"Drink greedily"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡʌzəl/Part of speech verbSorted egluzzStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1G2U3Z4Z5L6E

Definitions

  1. drink greedily or as if with great thirst

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.
  • They had a delightful meal, eating as much as possible, for whenever they stopped eating the Puddin" sang out-- "Eat away, chew away, munch and bolt and guzzle, Never leave the table till you're full up to the muzzle."
  • What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?

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