different between gulp vs guttle

English

Etymology

From Middle English gulpen, probably from West Flemish or Middle Dutch gulpen, golpen, probably of imitative origin.

Related to West Frisian gjalpe, gjalpje, gjealpje (“to gush, spurt forth”), Danish gulpe, gylpe (“to gulp up, disgorge”), dialectal Swedish glapa (“to gulp down”), Old English gealpettan (“to gulp down, eat greedily, devour”). More at galp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lp/

Noun

gulp (plural gulps)

1. The usual amount swallowed.

   Synonym: slug

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
   • 1994, James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

     Indeed, the envisioned future should produce a bit of "the gulp factor" […] , there should be an almost audible "gulp".

3. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.

Translations

Verb

gulp (third-person singular simple present gulps, present participle gulping, simple past and past participle gulped)

1. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drink

   • 1782, William Cowper, Table Talk

     He does not swallow, but he gulps it down.

2. To react nervously by swallowing.
   • 1930, P. G. Wodehouse, A Damsel in Distress, 2004, page 198

     The man eyed Percy with a chilly eye. "Well," he said, "What's troublin you?" Percy gulped. The man's mere appearance was a sedative. "Er-nothing! […]"

   • 2003, Carl Deuker, High Heat, page 140

     I'd always been nervous-excited; this was nervous-terrified. When I finished puking, I sat down gulping air for a while, trying to pull myself together.

   • 2006, Nancy Anne Nicholson, Thin White Female in No Acute Distress: A Memoir, page 187

     My heart was beating madly and I was gulping nervous energy.

Derived terms

• gulp down

Translations

Interjection

gulp

1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

   Synonym: ulp

Further reading

• swallowing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• “gulp”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• plug

Dutch

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; possibly from glop (“hole, opening”); also compare gleuf (“slot, slit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lp/
• Hyphenation: gulp
• Rhymes: -?lp

Noun

gulp f (plural gulpen, diminutive gulpje n)

1. fly; opening in a man's pants to facilitate relieving himself

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gulp

Further reading

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “gulp2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Turkmen

Noun

gulp

1. lock

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.