swattle

swattle (third-person singular simple present swattles, present participle swattling, simple past and past participle swattled)

1. (British, Northern dialect) To splutter; to guzzle.
2. (British, transitive) To fritter away.

• (fritter away): swatter

• swaddle

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “swattle”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• wattles