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Meaning of swill-tub | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A drunkard.

obsolete

Examples

“But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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