different between guttle vs cuttle

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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English cutil, codel, codul, from Old English cudele (“cuttlefish”), a diminutive from Proto-Germanic *kudil?, from Proto-Germanic *kuddô + -il?, from Proto-Indo-European *gewt- (“pouch, sack”), from *gew-, *g?- (“to bend, bow, arch, vault, curve”). Equivalent to cod +? -le (diminutive suffix). Compare dialectal German Kudele (“cuttlefish”), Norwegian kaule (“cuttlefish”).

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. Synonym of cuttlefish

Etymology 2

From Middle English coutel, from Old French coutel, coltel, cultel, from Latin cultellus. See cutlass.

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. (obsolete) A knife.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bale to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Noun

cuttle (plural cuttles)

1. (obsolete) A foul-mouthed fellow.

Anagrams

• cutlet