Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - guzzle
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Guzzle
guzzle
(guzzles, guzzling, guzzled) 1. If you guzzle something, you drink it or eat it quickly and greedily. (INFORMAL) Melissa had guzzled gin and tonics like they were lemonade. VERB: V n, also V 2. If you say that a vehicle guzzles fuel, you mean that it uses a lot of it in a way that is wasteful and unnecessary. The plane was deafeningly noisy, guzzled fuel, and left a trail of smoke. VERB: V n • -guzzling The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars. ...big energy-guzzling houses. COMB in ADJ: ADJ n see also gas guzzler
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1.
verb (~d; guzzling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1567 intransitive verb to drink especially liquor greedily, continually, or habitually transitive verb 1. to drink greedily or habitually ~ beer 2. consume, use up devices that ~ electricity • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v.tr. & intr. eat, drink, or consume excessively or greedily. Derivatives guzzler n. Etymology: perh. f. OF gosiller chatter, vomit f. gosier throat ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. разг. спиртной напиток 2. разг. попойка, обжорство 3. разг. пить или есть с жадностью; пьянствовать to sit guzzling beer all day —- сидеть и пить пиво целый день it annoyed me to see him guzzle roast beef and mustard —- мне было неприятно смотреть, с какой жадностью он ел мясо с горчицей 4. пропивать, проедать 5. разбазаривать, попусту тратить время ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
v. 1) жадно глотать; пить, есть с жадностью (тж. guzzle down) You men should be ashamed of yourselves, guzzling down pints of beer just to compete with each other; have you no self-respect? 2) пропивать, проедать (часто guzzle away) ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ v informal to eat or drink a lot of something, eagerly and quickly (They've been guzzling beer all evening.) (- see also gasguzzler) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1576, probably related to Fr. goiser "throat," or imitative of the sound of guzzling. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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