Eatanswill
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Name of the fictitious setting of riotous parliamentary elections in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Derived from eat and swill; see swill (“to drink”).
Noun[edit]
Eatanswill (plural Eatanswills)
- The area where a disorderly, argumentative and riotous election takes place.