▪ I. guzzling, vbl. n.
(ˈgʌzlɪŋ)
[f. guzzle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. guzzle.
| 1642 Rogers Naaman 392 [They] spend their time in guzling and drinking. 1711 E. Ward Vulgus Brit. ix. 99 By their Guzling and Neglect of Work..They lose their Business. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. x, Swine at least fatten on their guzzling. 1883 G. W. Curtis in Harper's Mag. Dec. 4/2 Christmas..was all guzzling and gobbling. |
▪ II. guzzling, ppl. a.
(ˈgʌzlɪŋ)
Also 7 gousling.
[+ -ing2.]
That guzzles, in the senses of the verb; hence, drunken, gluttonous, greedy.
| 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 137 The vndrainable draught of the gousling drunkards. 1714 Gay Sheph. Week v. 64 To fat the guzzling Hogs with Floods of Whey. 1827 Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 133 There is something shocking in the greedy, growling, guzzling monopoly of such a blessing. 1847 Barham Ingol. Leg Ser. iii. J. Jarvis's Wig, The beer, you guzzling wretch!—what beer? 1852 Jerdan Autobiog. II. xii. 142 A quiet, large, guzzling native of the Emerald Isle. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators I. 94 He was busy..with the eager, guzzling avidity of a pig. |