[f. SWILL v. + -ER1.] One who swills.
† 1. One who swills dishes; a scullion. Obs.
c. 1475. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 769/24. Hic lixa, a swyllere.
2. One who drinks greedily or to excess.
1598. Florio, Sorbibruodo, a greasie, slouenly feeder, a sipper of broth, a swiller.
c. 1618. Moryson, Itin., IV. (1903), 224. These Judges were … great swillers of Spanish sacke.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. Prol. A 6 b. What Swillers, what Twisters will there be!
1817. Morning Post, 19 March, 3/2. They must indeed be most strange gormandizers of food and precious swillers of wine if they be not satisfied with the following supplies.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. 71. The genuine Goths, as happens everywhere to this day, were great swillers of ale and beer.
