guzzle means drink; intoxicating liquor. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
guzzle is pronounced /ˈɡʌzəl/.
Etymology
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.
noun
- Drink; intoxicating liquor.“Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown”
- A drinking bout; a debauch.
- An insatiable thing or person.
- A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.“Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?”
- The throat.
verb
- To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.“No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.”
- To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.“A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.”
- To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.“This car just guzzles petrol.”
- To flow copiously; to spray out.“Blood guzzled from the wound.”