different between guttle vs suttle

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

Etymology 1

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Noun

suttle (plural suttles)

1. The weight of a commodity shipment after deduction of the weight of the container, before allowance of tret.

Verb

suttle (third-person singular simple present suttles, present participle suttling, simple past and past participle suttled)

1. To act as sutler; to supply provisions and other articles to troops.

See also

• tare

Etymology 2

Adjective

suttle (comparative more suttle, superlative most suttle)

1. Obsolete form of subtle.

References

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

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sutl?/

Verb

suttle

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Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary