Jenny Holzer

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

American Artist

George Orwell

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

British Author

Used to describe excessive or eager drinking, often with a negative connotation.

Excessive Drinking

Informal and more common in spoken English, especially in informal settings.

Colloquial Usage

Refers to a mixture of food waste and other low-quality materials given to animals.

Animal Feed

When used for human food, it implies it is of very poor quality, unappetizing.

Derogative Tone

Indicates that the food or drink is not just low quality, but barely consumable.

Negative Connotation

Used informally to disparage a type of food or drink, usually in casual conversation.

Casual Insult

Describes the action of cleaning something with a swift and thorough rinse.

Cleaning Action

Implies actual movement of liquid, usually in a forceful or swirling manner.

Literal Movement

 I was collecting food waste from my school kitchens, collecting these big yellow buckets of swill, all the stuff that my school friends had turned their noses up at, and I fed them to my pigs. I went to the local baker, and green grocer and markets, and also to a farmer who was throwing away potatoes that were wrong shape or size for the supermarkets.

Tristram Stuart: The...

 It could be that almost a quarter of that caffeine is still swilling around in your brain at midnight. And as a result, it can make it harder for an individual to fall asleep or even stay asleep soundly throughout the night.

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