guzzle
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(informal, transitive)To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
- 2.
(dated, informal, intransitive)To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
- 3.
(broadly, informal, transitive)(transitive, by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst; often said of gas-powered vehicles.
This car just guzzles petrol.
2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, http://michaelrigbyassociates.com/pages/research/quarterly/readreport35166.htm China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.
- 4.
(informal, intransitive, rare)To flow copiously; to spray out.
Blood guzzled from the wound.
The barrel guzzled out beer from the hole.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dated, uncountable)Drink; intoxicating liquor.
Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown
- 2.
(dated)A drinking bout; a debauch.
- 3.
(dated)An insatiable thing or person.
- 4.
(British, obsolete)(obsolete, British, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
- 5.
The throat.
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Nguồn gốc từ
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 gozzo. 1576.