swill

Other forms of swill

plural

swills·

past tense

swilled·

present participle

swilling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swill

What does swill mean?

swill means "feed pigs". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swill?

swill has 1 syllable: swill. In IPA it is /ˈswɪl/.

What is another word for swill?

Close synonyms include slop, swill down, slop, slops, pigswill. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swill a common word?

swill is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.