swill-tub

English

Etymology

swill +‎ tub

Noun

swill-tub (plural swill-tubs)

1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
   • 1725 [1518], Nathan, transl. Bailey, “The Epithalamium of Petrus Ægidius”, in All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, translation of Colloquies by Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261:

     But I have known a great many, to whom theſe kind Words have been chang'd into the quite contrary, in leſs than three Months Time; and inſtead of pleaſant Jeſts at Table, Diſhes and Trenchers have flown about. The Husband, inſtead of my dear Soul, has been call'd Blockhead, Toſs-Pot, Swill-Tub; and the Wife, Sow, Fool, dirty Drab.

Synonyms

• reel-pot, tosspot; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

Related terms

• swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-box, swill-can, swill-flagon, swill-pail, swill-pot