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The word "guzzle" is used in literature to evoke a vivid and often humorous sense of rapid or excessive consumption. For instance, François Rabelais employs the term with playful hyperbole in "Gargantua and Pantagruel," where characters are described as guzzling drinks with insatiable appetite ([1], [2]). Likewise, Anton Chekhov adopts the term in his short stories to depict both the mundane act of drinking tea or sour-cabbage soup and the more exaggerated image of guzzling milk on fast days ([3], [4], [5]). In James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," the use of "guzzle" adds urgency and dynamic energy to the narrative, reinforcing its versatility in conveying both literal and figurative excess ([6]).
  1. Guzzle-drink.
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
  2. Every man, therefore, in the army began to tipple, ply the pot, swill and guzzle it as fast as they could.
    — from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
  3. As for tea or sour-cabbage soup, the master and the mistress themselves guzzle that.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  4. As for tea or sour-cabbage soup, the master and the mistress themselves guzzle that.
    — from Best Russian Short Stories
  5. You had better ask that uncle of yours—ask him about his ‘Darling,’ how he used to guzzle milk on fast days with her, the viper.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  6. Guzzle him now, Towser! —Help!
    — from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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