See swill in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "pastone"
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
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],
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"text": "This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.",
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{
"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:",
"text": "They have helped foster a corrosive, mean-spirited, angry and divisive atmosphere that May and her lieutenants are too weak to challenge. Into this swill comes Leave financier-in-chief, Arron Banks, who last week announced he was setting up a “Patriotic Alliance” to attempt to unseat 100 Remain-supporting MPs.",
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"word": "hörppy"
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{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"word": "kulaus"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 0 95 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "großer Schluck"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 0 95 0 1",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"word": "ingurgitata"
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{
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow",
"tags": [
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"word": "dușcă"
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"type": "example"
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"liquid",
"liquid"
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"(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid."
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"text": "This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.",
"type": "example"
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"ref": "2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:",
"text": "They have helped foster a corrosive, mean-spirited, angry and divisive atmosphere that May and her lieutenants are too weak to challenge. Into this swill comes Leave financier-in-chief, Arron Banks, who last week announced he was setting up a “Patriotic Alliance” to attempt to unseat 100 Remain-supporting MPs.",
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"Anything disgusting or worthless."
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"text": "He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.",
"type": "example"
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"A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow."
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"liquid",
"liquid"
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[
"drunk",
"drunk"
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[
"swallow",
"swallow"
]
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"(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow."
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{
"word": "swig"
}
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"countable",
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"uncountable"
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"English informal terms"
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"Inexpensive beer or alcohol."
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[
"alcohol",
"alcohol"
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"(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol."
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"countable",
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"glosses": [
"A badly-thrown pass."
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"pass",
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"(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass."
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"feminine"
],
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"word": "潲"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "泔水"
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{
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{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"word": "sianruoka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"word": "soupe"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Spültrank"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kaspel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Schweinefutter"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "ξεπλύματα"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"word": "moslék"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pastone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "avanzi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "beverone"
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "mixture of solid and liquid food scraps",
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"plural"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "ru",
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"feminine",
"plural"
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"plural"
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"code": "es",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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{
"code": "tl",
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{
"code": "war",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"word": "bocht"
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{
"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
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"code": "de",
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"neuter"
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"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "any disgusting or distasteful liquid",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ξέπλυμα"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
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"word": "kutyulék"
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{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sbobba"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "mk",
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"word": "aguachirle"
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "anything disgusting or worthless",
"word": "moska"
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{
"code": "de",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "el",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "hu",
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "fi",
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"masculine"
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"ref": "1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker […], volume I, London: […] W. Johnston, […]; and B. Collins, […], →OCLC, page 188:",
"text": "[…] well-dressed people, of both sexes, […] devouring sliced beef, and swilling port, and punch, and cider […]",
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"ref": "1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XXI, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "“It is time lost,” muttered Cedric apart and impatiently, “to speak to him of aught else but that which concerns his appetite! […] he hath no pleasure save to fill, to swill, and to call for more. […]”",
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"ref": "1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:",
"text": "If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"text": "1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9,\nO’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth.\n“Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared."
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"ref": "1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:",
"text": "The awful judge at the trial, booze-swilling hack James Haggerty",
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"ref": "1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
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"ref": "1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a Pocket-knife”, in The Mill on the Floss […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book III (The Downfall), pages 83–84:",
"text": "Already, at three o’clock, Kezia, the good-hearted, bad-tempered housemaid, who regarded all people that came to the sale as her personal enemies, the dirt on whose feet was of a peculiarly vile quality, had begun to scrub and swill with an energy much assisted by a continual low muttering […]",
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"ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC, page 197:",
"text": "When my turn came for the bath, I asked if I might swill out the tub, which was streaked with dirt, before using it.",
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"ref": "1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 6, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 69:",
"text": "Jimmie looked lovingly at the flask, smelt it, and then, placing it next his ear, swilled it round to hear the splash of liquor.",
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"ref": "2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 14, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:",
"text": "He swilled round the whisky in his glass […]",
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"(transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion."
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"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1906, Perceval Gibbon, “The Coward”, in Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases, New York: McClure, Phillips, pages 222–223:",
"text": "[…] before them, between the high banks of the Vaal, they saw only a world of brown water, streaked with white froth, hurling down upon them. It rose above the foot-board and swilled to the level of the seat.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1959, Ezra Pound, “Canto 96”, in The Cantos of Ezra Pound, New York: New Directions, published 1986, page 654:",
"text": "A flood of fads swilled over all Europe.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "2000, Hanif Kureishi, “Goodbye, Mother” in Granta 69, Spring 2000, p. 119,\nThe smell, the internal workings of every human being, the shit, blood, mucus swilling in a bag of flesh, made him mad. He felt he was wearing the glasses the stage hypnotist had given people, but instead of seeing them naked, he saw their inner physiology, their turbulence, their death."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move around or over a surface."
],
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"(intransitive, of a liquid) To move around or over a surface."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a liquid"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Comus",
"ref": "1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] I should be loath\nTo meet the rudenesse, and swill’d insolence\nOf such late Wassailers;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1858 July 17, “A Primary Election at Peter Cooper’s Funny Little Grocery-Groggery”, in Stephen H. Branch’s Alligator, volume I, number 13, page 2:",
"text": "Have I not kept open house for three days and nights, and swilled yourself and comrades with liquor for a week, and haven’t you all been drunk at my expense for several days?",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To inebriate; to fill with drink."
],
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"inebriate",
"inebriate"
]
],
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"(transitive, obsolete) To inebriate; to fill with drink."
],
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"obsolete",
"transitive"
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1921, Nephi Anderson, chapter 8, in Dorian, Salt Lake City, page 84:",
"text": "“Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To feed swill to (pigs)."
],
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[
"pig",
"pig"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To feed swill to (pigs)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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