Guzzle vs. Swig — What's the Difference?

To drink greedily or habitually

A quick, deep gulp of a liquid

To consume to excess

To drink (liquid) or engage in drinking liquid in great gulps.

To drink, especially alcoholic beverages, greedily or habitually.

To drink usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner; to quaff.

To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.

(obsolete) To suck.

To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.

(nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.

(by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst.

(obsolete) Drink, liquor.

Drink; intoxicating liquor.

(by extension) A long draught from a drink.

(dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.

(obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.

(dated) An insatiable thing or person.

(nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.

A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.

Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

The throat.

To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.

To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.

To suck.

To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.

To castrate, as a ram, by binding the testicles tightly with a string, so that they mortify and slough off.

An insatiable thing or person.

To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Drink greedily or as if with great thirst;

A long draught.

A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.

A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.

A large and hurried swallow;

Strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat;

To swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught;