different between uttering vs guttering

English

Verb

uttering

1. present participle of utter

Noun

uttering (plural utterings)

1. An utterance; something spoken.
2. (law) The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation.

   The girl using a fake ID to enter a bar was guilty of uttering.

   • 1881, Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher. An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law

     If two jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and utter it in different shops apart from each other, but in concert, and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.

Derived terms

• uttering and publishing

Anagrams

• tiger nut

English

Noun

guttering (usually uncountable, plural gutterings)

1. Gutters collectively.

Verb

guttering

1. present participle of gutter

Adjective

guttering

1. (of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
   • 1919, Siegfried Sassoon, The Dug-out

     Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,

     And one arm bent across your sullen cold

     Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,

     Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;