English Explanatory Dictionary

Eatanswill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The area where a disorderly, argumentative and riotous election takes place.

Word forms

Eatanswill Eatanswills

Etymology

Name of the fictitious setting of riotous parliamentary elections in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Derived from eat and swill; see swill (“to drink”).

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