[f. SWILL sb.2 1 + TUB sb.] A tub for swill or hog-wash. Occas. attrib. Also fig. with allusion to heavy drinking.
1575. Gammer Gurton, IV. ii. Art thou sure diccon, the swil tub standes not here aboute?
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., VII. lxxvii. Soure swil-tub sinne, of all the rest the sink.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq. (1878), 387. The Husband … has been call’d Blockhead, Toss-Pot, Swill-Tub.
1736. F. Drake, Eboracum, I. iii. 84. The inhabitants … have a custom … to make Pyes in the Form of a Swill, or Swine-Tub.
1756. Poor Robin, June B j b. Who makes a swill tub of his womb, Is but a speaking, prattling tomb.
1899. ‘Ouida,’ in Fortn. Rev., Nov., 813. Hogs do not rend the man who carries the swill-tub.
