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Meaning of Guzzle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈɡʌzəl

Definitions

  1. Drink; intoxicating liquor.
    dated, uncountable
  2. A drinking bout; a debauch.
    dated
  3. An insatiable thing or person.
    dated
  4. A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
    British, obsolete
  5. The throat.

Equivalents

Examples

“Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown”
“Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?”
“This is all one thing as if hee should goe about to jussle her into some filthy stinking guzzle or ditch.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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