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swill-pot en · NOUN

From swill + pot.

(obsolete) A drunkard.
- But, said he, what doth that part of our army in the meantime which overthrows that unworthy swillpot Grangousier? 1653, Thomas, transl. Urquhart, chapter XXXIII, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of original by Francois Rabelais, First Book:
- Look you, ye hang-dog! You ſhall caſt flections on me and my ways! You ſhall, ye ſwill-pot! 1799, George Peter Holford, True Patriotism, act2, scene 1, page 22:
- Beer, ye boozy scabs! Ha'n't ye enough a'ready? Don't I pay for it, and for every minute of time ye rob me of, ye swabs, ye swill-pot hounds? There's the pond for ye. Go and lap water, like the lazy dogs ye are! 1892 June 14, Arthur Morison, “The Legend of Lapwater Hall”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 66, page 110:

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swillpot		alternative	lexicographic
swill-pots	Number=Plur		lexicographic