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Rinse vs. Swill

Rinse and Swill Definitions

Rinse

To wash lightly with water.

Swill

To drink greedily or grossly
"Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux" (W.H. Auden).

Rinse

To remove (soap, for example) by washing lightly in water.

Swill

To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid
Swilled down the pretzels with soda.

Rinse

The act of washing lightly.

Swill

To flood with water, as for washing or rinsing
Swilled out the glass.
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Rinse

A solution, such as water, used in rinsing.

Swill

To swirl (a liquid) around in a container or in one's mouth
Swilled the wine in the glass before sniffing.

Rinse

A solution used in coloring or conditioning the hair.

Swill

To feed (animals) with swill.

Rinse

(transitive) To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.

Swill

To drink greedily or to excess.
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Rinse

(transitive) To remove soap from (something) using water.
Rinse the dishes after you wash them.

Swill

A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.

Rinse

To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
You got rinsed.

Swill

Liquor or other alcohol of poor quality
I won't drink this swill.

Rinse

The action of rinsing.
I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.

Swill

A swig or gulp of a drink.
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Rinse

A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
I had a henna rinse yesterday.

Swill

(collective) A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.

Rinse

To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.

Swill

(by extension) Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.

Rinse

To cleancse by the introduction of water; - applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.

Swill

Anything disgusting or worthless.
This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.

Rinse

The act of rinsing.

Swill

(informal) A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.

Rinse

A liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint

Swill

(informal) Inexpensive beer or alcohol.

Rinse

The removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing

Swill

(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass.

Rinse

The act of giving a light tint to the hair

Swill

(transitive) To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.

Rinse

Washing lightly without soap

Swill

(transitive) To wash (something) by flooding with water.

Rinse

Wash off soap or remaining dirt

Swill

(transitive) To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.

Rinse

Clean with some chemical process

Swill

To move around or over a surface.

Rinse

Rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash;
Gargle with this liquid

Swill

To inebriate; to fill with drink.

Swill

(transitive) To feed swill to (pigs).

Swill

To wash; to drench.
As fearfully as doth a galled rockO'erhang and jutty his confounded base,Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.

Swill

To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.

Swill

To inebriate; to fill with drink.
I should be lothTo meet the rudeness and swilled insolenceOf such late wassailers.

Swill

To drink greedily or swinishly; to drink to excess.

Swill

The wash, or mixture of liquid substances, given to swine; hogwash; - called also swillings.

Swill

Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.

Swill

Wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk

Swill

Feed pigs

Swill

Drink large quantities of (liquid, especially alcoholic drink)

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