guttle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Often followed by down or up

   Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.

   • And Marſeus (he vvho gave his houſe to the actreſs Origo) lives again in the perſon of their young heir, vvho novv guttles dovvn vvith an actreſs the laſt mortgage of an eſtate he has near the Eſcurial.
   • We might have Dido's maid coming after her mistress in the shower with pattens and an umbrella; or Cleopatra's page guttling the figs in the basket which had brought the asp that killed the mistress of Antony.
2. 2

   To eat voraciously

   To eat voraciously; to gorge.

   • Time vvas, e'er Temperance had fled the realm; / E're Luxury ſat guttling at the helm / From meal to meal, vvithout one moment's ſpace […]
   • In a vvord, an Engliſhman, after guttling on pudding and beef, vvell diluted vvith ſtrong beer, talks avvay, of all other nations, as if they had not the ſame creator.
3. 3

   An act of swallowing voraciously.

   • 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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   1. 4

      One who eats voraciously

      One who eats voraciously; a glutton.

      • [P]lague tak the greedy guttles, I wish they wud gie ae meal, out o' the five, to their head.
   2. 5

      Something which is eaten voraciously.

      • And can you paſs by money fixed in mud, / Nor ſvvallovv vvith your guttle mercurial ſpittle?
   3. 6

      To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal)

      To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.

   4. 7

      To make a bubbling sound

      To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.

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