guzzle

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: guz=zle
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

guzzle, v. i. [OP. gosillier, prob. orig., to pass through the throat; akin to F. gosier throat; cf. It. gozzo a bird's crop.].

 To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.  [1913 Webster]
"Those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar."  [1913 Webster]
"Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise,
Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise."  [1913 Webster]
"To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey."  [1913 Webster]

guzzle, v. t. 

 To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

guzzle, n. 

 An insatiable thing or person.  [1913 Webster]
"That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

guzzle, v.tr. & intr. eat, drink, or consume excessively or greedily.

Derivative

guzzler n.

Etymology

perh. f. OF gosiller chatter, vomit f. gosier throat

THESAURUS

guzzle

bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, batten, bender, beverage, bib, binge, bolt, bolt down, booze, bout, bumper, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, compotation, cram, debauch, devour, draft, drain the cup, dram, drench, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink in, drink off, drink to, drink up, drinking bout, drop, drunk, drunken carousal, engorge, esophagus, fauces, follow strong drink, gargle, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goozle, gorge, gormandize, grog, gullet, gulp, gulp down, guttle, hals, imbibe, ingurgitate, jag, jigger, jolt, knock back, lap, lap up, libation, liquor up, live to eat, nip, orgy, peg, pharynx, pledge, portion, potation, potion, pub-crawl, pull, quaff, raven, round, round of drinks, shot, sip, slop, slosh, slurp, snifter, snort, soak, spot, spree, stuff, suck, suck in, suckle, sup, swig, swill, symposium, tank up, tear, throat, tipple, toast, toot, tope, toss down, toss off, tot, wash down, wassail, weasand, wet, wizen, wolf, wolf down

ROGET THESAURUS

guzzle

Gluttony

N gluttony, greed, avarice, greediness, voracity, epicurism, good living, high living, edacity, gulosity, crapulence, guttling, guzzling, pantophagy, good cheer, blow out, feast, gastronomy, batterie de cuisine, epicure, bon vivant, gourmand, glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome, gourmet, v, gormandize, gorge, overgorge, overeat oneself, engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff, guttle, guzzle, bolt, devour, gobble up, gulp, raven, eat out of house and home, have the stomach of an ostrich, play a good knife and fork, pamper, gluttonous, greedy, gormandizing, edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish, avaricious, selfish, pampered, overfed, overgorged, jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.

Drunkenness

VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.