swill-bowl Obs. or arch.
(ˈswɪlbəʊl)
Forms: see swill v. and bowl n.1; also 6 swielbolle, swylbowle, 6–7 swilbol.
[f. swill v. + bowl n.1]
One who habitually ‘swills the bowl’ or drinks to excess; a toper, drunkard.
| 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 330 b, The greatest swielbolle of wyne in the world. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 86 The Drunkards & swilbowles, vppon their ale benches. 1601 Holland Pliny xxiii. viii. II. 171 Lustie tosse-pots and swill-bolls. 1616 Deacon Tobacco Tortured 57 Alas poore Tobacco, my pretie Tobacco; thou that hast bene hitherto accompted the Ale-knights armes, the Beere brewers badge,..the Swil bols swine-troffe, the Tinkers trull. 1655 R. Younge Agst. Drunkards (1863) 5 Though these swinish swill-bouls make their gullet their god. a 1845 A. E. Bray Warleigh xviii. (1884) 149, I will allow nothing to make you the companions of swillbowls and ranters. |