different between guttae vs guttle

English

Noun

guttae

1. plural of gutta

Latin

Noun

guttae

1. nominative plural of gutta
2. genitive singular of gutta
3. dative singular of gutta
4. vocative plural of gutta

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.