Meaning of swill-bowl | Babel Free

Definitions

A drunkard.

obsolete

Examples

“But nothing like to that hath been shewed since in the English church by the spiritual tyrant of Rome and his mitred termagants, at the provocation of their oiled swill-bowls and blind Balaamites. For they most cruelly brent those innocents which did but only read the testament of God in their mother-tongue; and do not yet repent them of that mischief, but continue therein.”

“Wantonness was never such a swill-bowl of ribaldry; nor Idleness ever such a carouser of knavery.”

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