guttle

American  

[guht-l] / ˈgʌt l /

verb (used with or without object)

guttled, guttling

1. to eat greedily or voraciously; gormandize.

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Other Word Forms

• guttler noun

Etymology

Origin of guttle

1645–55; gut + -le; guzzle

Example Sentences

Cruel King Coal doth feed and stuff, Revel and riot in each man's scuttle; Eat and drink when he's more than full enough, Cram, guzzle, and gorge, and swill, and guttle.

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“Here you will find no guttling or gormandising, no turtle or nightingales’ tongues,” said the extravagant, whose name, by the way, was Dalmahoy.

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Miss Biddy and her vanities, Master Bob and his guttling, the eminent turncoat Phil Fudge, Esq. himself and his politics, are all excellent.

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The Neapolitan character was handled more unmercifully in the part of a guttling, fulsome old coxcomb, as cowardly as the Dane was quarrelsome.

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“I heard auntie talk about the soldiers come and make them cook up everything they had and et it up faster ’en it took ’er to fix it ready for ’em to guttle down.

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