What does gulpful mean?
Gulpful means The amount swallowed in a single gulp..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The amount swallowed in a single gulp..
The taste drove him mad, and, dropping down on hands and knees like a dog, he put his lips to the side of the bucket and drew in long gulpfuls.
Funky held out an unlabeled bottle of whisky to Clifford, who drank a gulpful.
He had drunk on beery-extra layers of fat to his already substantial torso until his midsection hung in front with an almost improbably swollen belly which lugged at his heart and squeezed his lungs so that his breathing was a rhythmic gasping for gulpsful of air with the effort to trundle his bulk about on foreshortened legs.
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Gulpful means The amount swallowed in a single gulp..
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The taste drove him mad, and, dropping down on hands and knees like a dog, he put his lips to the side of the bucket and drew in long gulpfuls.
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