Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the throat.

1654		E. Gayton Pleasant Notes III v 96: He was not able to stirre his jawes, nor could be partaker of any of the good cheer, except it were the liquid part of it, which they call Dutch gleek, where he plaied his cards so well, and vied and revied so often that he had scarce an eye to see withall, his guzzle recompencing abundantly the want of his Teeth.
1680		M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 137: The old Noose Love has stopt my guzle.
1834		W.A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I 25: A chap would make a blue fist of takin a dead aim through double sights, with the butt end of a psalm in his guzzle.
1843		W.T. Thompson Major Jones’s Courtship (1872) 58: King Rum [...] that very tyrant that’s got you by the guzzle now.
1875		Wichita Beacon 15 Sept. in Miller & Snell Why the West was Wild 492: A soiled dove got her guzzle full of whisky last Friday.
1906		J.W. Carr ‘Words from Northwest Arkansas’ in DN III:ii 138: goozle, gozzle, guzzle, n. Throat.
1938		C. Odets Rocket to the Moon III i: You like to choke me? Do it ... put your two hands on my old guzzle and squeeze!
1944		D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 28: I can see the Vasserkopf turns a little pale around the guzzle.
1987		J.E. Wideman Reuben 107: He will split the kid down the middle, from his guzzle to his zorch.

2. liquor, a drink; thus guzzling, drinking heavily.

1639		R. Davenport A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell I ii: I have dealt closely with a man of his To undermine him, one that [...] Leades him to Game and guzzle in Vaulting houses, And places of bad fame.
1655		E. Gayton Wil Bagnals Ghost 16: Others for canting, drabbing, and for guzzle.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Guzzle Drink.
1698		N. Ward ‘A Satyr upon Derby-Ale’ Writings (1704) 35: Guzzle for Carmen, Foggy and Unfine.
a.1704		T. Brown in Works (1707) II 68: Where [have you] squander’d away the tiresome minutes of your evening leisure, over seal’d Winchesters of three-penny guzzle?
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1787		‘Peter Pindar’ ‘Peters Pension’ Works (1794) II 158: Lo, for a little meat and guzzle, This sneaking cur, too, takes the muzzle.
1790		Dialogue between a Noted Shoemaker and his Wife 2: Mr. Good-for-nothing at all, bad in bed and worse up; raising, raving, roaring for more guzzle, whilst I and your poor children [...] have neither fire, candle, or bread.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].
1815		D. Roberts Sequel to The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome II 178: Such drinking healths, such roaring, and such guzzle.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1837		R. Nicholson Cockney Adventures 11 Nov. 15: I suppose [...] as that nasty feller, Kink, has gone out to get guzzle for yer both.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1855		(ref. to 18C) Leicester Jrnl 7 Dec. 4/1: They are indulging in [...] chocolate, while their chairmen outside have a good drain of porter’s guzzle.
1876		C. Hindley Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 57: Jack had no ambition farther than to earn a few shillings [...] then doing a guzzle with the money so earned.
1880		Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Feb. 2/1: [H]aving got himself lately into hot water, [he] was desirous of having the consequent coolness of his freezing friends thawed by the genial gastronomy of a good guzzle.
1882		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 26 Aug. 2/1: Tho Jury visited Savin Rock, dined and had a big wine guzzle on the anniversary of Jennie Cramer’s death.
1893		N.H. Kennard Diogenes’ Sandals 178: They’d come in with a lot of leather bags and bladders full o’ whiskey [...] and they’d sell ye ‘guzzle’ for next to nothin’.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 1July 4/3: Mr James Toohey — once (by grace of god and guzzle) a member of the New South Wales Parliament.
1900		T.J. Carey Hebrew Yarns and Dialect Humor 81/1: The slang of our day is a puzzle, / Invented by — ah, who can tell? / A drink is a ‘smile,’ or a ‘guzzle,’ / A swindler is merely a ‘sell.’.
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 17 Jan. 4/5: There wasn’t [...] a guzzle [...] or a flood of loyal flapdoodle.
1912		Bulletin (Sydney) 25 July 36/1: Haters of guzzle and gambling, fierce on the drab and the drink, / Pushing the minions of Evil nearer and nearer the brink; / Saying to Tot and to Flossie – ‘Way from our suburb select! / Get you a harbor, ye gay ones, out of the sight of our sect.’.
1933		J. Spenser Limey 161: He was tossing down neat whisky [...] ‘Hey, cut the guzzle, Spud!’ said I suddenly.
1938		P. Grey ‘’Twixt Night ’n’ Dawn’ in Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 17 Sept. 10/4: Strollers who like to slip way [...] for a cocktail or beer guzzle.
1959		G. Hamilton Summer Glare 56: ‘Now where’s the old man gone?’ she asked. ‘Out for a guzzle o’ course,’ Cliff said.
1960		N. Hilliard Maori Girl 111: I bet she’s there having a real guzzle.

3. beer.

1699

N. Ward London Spy VII 156: A parcel of Pipes in one hand, and a Gallon-Pot of Guzzle in the other.

4. the eating of a meal, a mouthful of food or drink.

1836		M. Scott Cruise of the Midge II 186: About the time supper was announced [...] and just before the guzzle, began, I was drawn towards the inner hall.
1891		Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 28 Feb. 1/3: Can Anybody Tell Us [...] If Sir John Robertson's absence from the Great Federal Guzzle will only mean one ‘drunk’ less?
1901		W.A. Sun. Times (Perth) 3 Nov. 1/1: No Government guzzle ever dares to eventuate without the presence of the Hangman’s henchman.

5. a swig, a gulp.

1917		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 30 July [synd. col.] The bartender explained that he didn’t sell whiskey by [...] the cubic guzzle.
1925		Z.N. Hurston Spunk (1995) 954: The men whispered coarse conjectures between guzzles of whiskey.
1938		P. Grey ‘’Twixt Night ’n’ Dawn’ in Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 17 Sept. :
1974		D. Ireland Burn 39: Here, have a guzzle.