Just so I am completely confident in how I should consolidate this into my being (
), which definition do you mean?
- BRITISH wash or rinse out (an area or container) by pouring large amounts of water or other liquid over or into it. "I swilled out the mug" synonyms: wash, sluice, clean out, flush, rinse, bathe, cleanse, drench"with a clatter of buckets and bowls, we started to swill down the yard"
- INFORMAL drink (something) greedily or in large quantities. "they whiled away their evening swilling pints of beer"
I'm
Canadian, so an imaginative combination of American and British meanings flows constantly through the stream of English usage here. Till the day she died my mother persisted in calling cigarettes
s though she never once stepped foot in the UK to my knowledge.