guttle

[guht-l]

verb (used with or without object)

guttled, guttling 

1. to eat greedily or voraciously; gormandize.

Other Word Forms

• guttler noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of guttle¹

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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You don’t know what it is to want rum, you don’t: it gets to that p’int that you would kill a ’ole ship’s company for just one guttle of it.

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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 guttling sot, What a conduit his throat!

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