guttle
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Hardness is there in the dialect, too: guttle, kested, barkled, cozzly, butty, chelp and so on.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2013
No, all he has to do with his money is to guttle it.
From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
“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.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration
Are you, who are setting up to be a man of the world and philosopher, to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?
From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
What could males do then but yawn, sleep, snore, guzzle, guttle, and drink till they grew dead and got buried?
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 by Various
“Here you will find no guttling or gormandising, no turtle or nightingales’ tongues,” said the extravagant, whose name, by the way, was Dalmahoy.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
What a contempt they must have for the guttling crowd to whom they minister—those solemn pastry-cook's men!
From The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh by Thackeray, William Makepeace
The Neapolitan character was handled more unmercifully in the part of a guttling, fulsome old coxcomb, as cowardly as the Dane was quarrelsome.
From Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by Hughes, John
In defiance of the old proverb, "le ventre est le plus grand de tous nos ennemis," guttling and guzzling is the rage of these upstarts.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
Miss Biddy and her vanities, Master Bob and his guttling, the eminent turncoat Phil Fudge, Esq. himself and his politics, are all excellent.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
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