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guttled

English

Verb

guttled

  1. simple past tense and past participle of guttle

Anagrams

  • glutted

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guttle

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.

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