What's the difference between guzzle and nuzzle?

Guzzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  • (v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
  • (n.) An insatiable thing or person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
  • (2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
  • (3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
  • (4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
  • (5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
  • (6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
  • (7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
  • (8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
  • (9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
  • (10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
  • (11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
  • (12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
  • (13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
  • (14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
  • (15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
  • (16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
  • (17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
  • (18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
  • (19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
  • (20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.

Nuzzle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
  • (v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
  • (v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
  • (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
  • (v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
  • (v. t.) To loiter; to idle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One weekend, I saw two men of my age holding hands and nuzzling as they strolled among the stalls at Borough market.
  • (2) Don was there first, nuzzling his tumbler, mulling on the quality of his creative.
  • (3) But he did his best to puncture an Italian defender, the deep red marks on Giorgio Chiellini’s shoulder appearing to confirm the suspicion that the striker had leaned in for more than just a friendly nuzzle as the pair tussled off the ball in the 79th minute.
  • (4) A colleague said she had later seen the diary secretary "nuzzle" Mr Prescott's neck in the lift.
  • (5) They come into the room and one plays on the floor with the laundry basket, while the other climbs into the middle of the bed, nuzzles into his father's armpit. "
  • (6) Budd reckons marriage and children - Lisa, seven, and four-year-old twins Mikey and Azelle - are the best things she has done, the twins taking turns to nuzzle in her arms.
  • (7) Prior to assuming the upright crouching posture over their pups during nursing bouts, lactating rats typically engage in several oral behaviors, including nuzzling, licking and rearranging pups.
  • (8) At the end of 4 h dams were reunited with their calves in S + C and S + GnRH groups, while dams of calves in NS + C and NS + GnRH groups remained separated an additional 2 h. Cows were injected iv with saline or GnRH following the 4-h isolation period, 5 min after calves had begun suckling or nuzzling the udder.
  • (9) She also stopped by to nuzzle faces with Jay-Z as he performed his track Picasso Baby for six hours in homage to her 2010 performance, The Artist is Present , where she sat motionless in MoMA's atrium for 736 hours.
  • (10) The main behavioural events of the male (nuzzling and mounting) did not differ in the presence of receptive or non-receptive females.
  • (11) Plasma relaxin levels were measured in animals at different stages of lactation and related to the amount of nuzzling and suckling behavior exhibited by the piglets.
  • (12) The image that springs to mind is of John Cleese's response when Michael Palin's pet shop owner insists that were the Norwegian Blue not nailed to its perch "it would nuzzle up to those bars and 'voom'".
  • (13) An eight-part tribute to the 1939-1945 pluck of our agricultural predecessors, it appears to have borrowed its MO from Abigail; draping its lovely soppy labradoriness over our slippers and nuzzling into our lap with its damp-nosed facts and historical bonhomie, even though it's actually a cow and, as such, has ruined the carpet.
  • (14) But if that nuzzling cetacean on his right turned nasty, I think we all know who would come out on top.
  • (15) It is worth it – if nothing else for the cave's rare depiction of reindeer, a male nuzzling the face of a kneeling female, which is touching, deftly constructed and reveals not only the artistic skills of its creators but their considerable knowledge of animal behaviour and anatomy.
  • (16) Cabe, a watchdog ever fond of nuzzling the developers it was supposed to be watching, has been shrunk and further enfeebled.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Steve McCurry On one visit, I fell asleep under a tree and woke to the feeling of something nuzzling my leg.

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