subs. (colloquial).—A hard drinker; a coarse, voracious feeder. See GUZZLE.
d. 1704. T. BROWN, Works, iii., 265 [ed. 1760], ‘A Declaration in Defence of Gaming, against Drunkenness.’ Being an eternal GUZZLER of wine, his mouth smelt like a vintner’s vault.
1841. DICKENS, Barnaby Rudge, ch. xiii. To be looked upon as a common pipe-smoker, beer-bibler, spirit-GUZZLER, and toss-pot.
