swally v.
(Irish) to drink, to eat; also fig. use.
![]() | Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry I 193: Thank you, Alick; you think I swally that: but . . . | ‘Larry M’Farland’s Wake|
![]() | Knocknagow 26: A duck ’ud swally all he’d be able to turn out from morning to night. | |
![]() | (con. 1890s) Pictures in the Hallway 79: Swally up the remainder of what yeh have there, an’ be off, like a good man. | |
![]() | Stories & Plays (1973) 186: Shure if you’d any sense, you’d be out swallying balls of malt like the rest of us. | Faustus Kelly in ‘Flann O’Brien’|
![]() | Da (1981) Act II: The way you swally-ed them. Begod, says I to meself, that fellow would drink Lough Erin dry. | |
![]() | Young Team 5: Me n aw ma pals juststarted swallyin’ oot on the streets properly. |