slang or colloq. and dial. [f. SWIZZLE sb.]
1. intr. To drink to excess, swig, tipple.
1847. Halliwell, Swizzle … to drink, or swill.
1903. ‘Angus McNeill’ (T. W. H. Crosland), Egregious English, xvi. 155. There [at the buffet] he gorges and swizzles till the warning bell advises him of the departure of his train.
2. trans. To stir with a swizzle-stick.
1859. Trollope, West Indies, iii. (1860), 46. A long bitter duly swizzled is your true West Indian syren.
1885. Lady Brassey, The Trades, 151. The whole is mixed with powdered ice, and stirred or ‘swizzled’ until it froths well.
