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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
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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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