swill

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   wet feed, especially for pigs, consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or milk

   The farmer threw the swill into the sty.

From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.

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