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
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
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
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 William Makepeace Thackeray
Why, thou cormorant, thou greedy kite, is't not enough to consume victuals and provender under my own roof, but thou must guttle 'em here too?
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
“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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 George Saintsbury
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 Francis W. Blagdon
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 William Dean Howells
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 John Hughes
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