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guttlesome

adj

Etymology

From guttle (“to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble; to guzzle; to eat voraciously; to gorge”) + -some (“characterized by some specific condition or quality, usually to a considerable degree”).

  1. borrowed from guttle
  2. suffixed as guttlesome — “guttle + -some”

Definitions

  1. Greedily eating and gorging oneself

    Greedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous.

    • 'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead.
    • Since when I've cleared the table to feed these guttlesome swans—on the best cake, too, which is simply immoral.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for guttlesome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA