different between guzzle vs toss

English

Alternative forms

• guzle
• guzzel

Etymology

Attested since 1576. Possibly imitative of the sound of drinking greedily, or from Old French gouziller, gosillier (“to pass through the throat”), from gosier (“throat”), and akin to Italian gozzo (“throat; a bird's crop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Verb

guzzle (third-person singular simple present guzzles, present participle guzzling, simple past and past participle guzzled)

1. To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto.
   • 1720, John Gay, “Friday; or, the Dirge” in Poems on Several Occasions, Google Books

     No more her care shall fill the hollow tray, / To fat the guzzling hogs with floods of whey.

   • 1971, Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley, “Oompa Loompa, Doompa-Dee-Do”, from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

     What do you get when you guzzle down sweets, / Eating as much as an elephant eats?

   • 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

     It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. The seat is an extension of the sofa, the match another Pick of the Day in the Radio Times. Some are wearing Santa hats, some have been drinking only six or seven hours after last stopping, guzzling away, topping up their levels to reach pie-eyed delirium.

2. (intransitive, dated) To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually.
   • 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes, Google Books

     A comparison more properly bestowed on those that came to guzzle in his wine cellar.

   • 1684, Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse, Google Books

     Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.

   • 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, Google Books

     Every theatre had it's footman's gallery: […] they guzzled, devoured, debauched, cheated, played cards, bullied visitors for vails: […]

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

   This car just guzzles petrol.

   • 2004, Mike Rigby, quoted in The Freefoam Roofline Report, [1]

     China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted.

Synonyms

• (to drink quickly, voraciously): swig, swill

Derived terms

• guzzler

Translations

See also

• guttle
• guddle

Noun

guzzle (plural guzzles)

1. (dated, uncountable) Drink; intoxicating liquor.

   Where squander'd away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure over seal'd Winchesters of threepenny guzzle! — Tom Brown

2. (dated) A drinking bout; a debauch.
3. (dated) An insatiable thing or person.
4. (obsolete, Britain, provincial) A drain or ditch; a gutter; sometimes, a small stream. Also called guzzen.
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie Google Books

     Means't thou that senseless, sensual epicure, / That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure?
5. The throat

English

Etymology

From Middle English tossen (“to buffet about, agitate, toss; to sift or winnow”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse (compare dialectal Norwegian tossa, dialectal Swedish tossa (“to strew, spread”)), or perhaps from an alteration of Middle English tosen (“to tease, pull apart, shred; to wound, injure”). Compare also Dutch tassen (“to pile or heap up, stack”).

The Welsh tos (“a quick jerk”) and tosio (“to jerk, toss”) are probably borrowed from the English.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /t?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

toss (plural tosses)

1. A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
2. (cricket, soccer) The coin toss before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
3. A haughty throwing up of the head.
4. (British slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.

   I couldn't give a toss about her.

5. (British slang) A state of agitation; commotion.
6. (Billingsgate Fish Market slang) A measure of sprats.

Derived terms

• argue the toss

Translations

Verb

toss (third-person singular simple present tosses, present participle tossing, simple past and past participle tossed or (obsolete) tost)

1. To throw with an initial upward direction.

2. To lift with a sudden or violent motion.

   • He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.

3. To agitate; to make restless.
4. To subject to trials; to harass.

   • Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

5. To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.

6. (informal) To discard: to toss out

7. To stir or mix (a salad).

8. (British slang) To masturbate
9. (transitive, informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
10. (intransitive) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.

11. (intransitive) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas.
12. (obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ascham to this entry?)

13. (rowing) To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
14. (British slang) To drink in large draughts; to gulp.

Derived terms

• toss one's cookies
• tosser
• toss off
• tosspot
• toss in
• toss up
• toss and turn
• tosticated

Translations

Anagrams

• OSTs, SSTO, osts, sots