swill
noun
liquid or partly liquid food for animals, especially kitchen refuse given to swine; hogwash.
was swilling
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past progressiveof swill.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The last time this amount of money was swilling around, we know how it ended.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2015
At the door of the coach house one of the men I had already seen was swilling the wheel of a big coach with pails of water, whistling the while.
From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Herbert Strang
