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
You may guttle, while righteous Lazarus is lying at your gate.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas
No, all he has to do with his money is to guttle it.
From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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
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.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
It was then in a good state to be destroyed by that devout William the Conqueror, who came to take the Saxon world in its sins of guttling and guzzling.
From Seven English Cities by Howells, William Dean
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.
“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
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