different between greedily vs guttle

English

Etymology

From Middle English gredyly, gredily, from Old English gr?digl?ce, gr?del?ce; equivalent to greedy +? -ly.

Adverb

greedily (comparative more greedily, superlative most greedily)

1. In a greedy manner; with keen or ardent desire.

   The two dogs greedily devoured the meat.

   I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.

   Synonyms: avidly, eagerly

Translations

References

• greedily in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Ridgeley

English

Etymology

Attested since about 1650, from gut (“belly”) +? -le. Possibly influenced by guzzle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t(?)l/, [???.?l?]
• Rhymes: -?t?l

Verb

guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To eat voraciously; to swallow greedily.

   Synonyms: gorge, gobble, gormandize, wolf down

   • c. 1692, Dryden, Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius:

     His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.

   • 1890s, Poverty Knock:

     I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.

2. To swallow.
   • 1692 Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists:

     The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they'd hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops

3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound.
4. (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate.

Derived terms

• guttler

Translations

See also

• devour
• gorge
• gobble
• gulp

References

• Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755) , “To GU?TTLE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […] In Two Volumes, volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], OCLC 1637325, column 1.