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/ˈɡʌtl̩/ · verb
(transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle..
VVhy a Hot Iron vvould have Hiſs'd if you had but Spit upon't. The Fool carry'd this Philoſophy avvay vvith him, and took an Occaſion aftervvard to Spit in his Porridge, to try if they'd Hiſs. They did not Hiſs it ſeems, and ſo he Guttled 'em up, and Scalt his Chops.
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.
Are you, who are setting up to be a man of the world and a philosopher, to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?
You married the boy's mother to craze and kill her, and guttle her property. You waited for the boy to come of age to swallow what was settled on him.
O depth of guile! / He blindly guzzles and guttles, // While—who is it dresses the food and pours / The liquor?
[I]t doesn't much matter to me so long as I can have a slice of cake before Mieka guttles it all.
One, Frugal, on his Birth-Day fears to dine: / Does at a Penny's coſt in Herbs repine, / And hardly dares to dip his Fingers in the Brine. / Prepar'd as Prieſt of his ovvn Rites, to ſtand, / He ſprinkles Pepper vvith a ſparing hand. / His Jolly Brother, oppoſite in ſence, / Laughs at his Thrift; and laviſh of Expence, / Quaffs, Crams, and Guttles, in his ovvn defence.
Use guttle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Guttle means (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle..
Common synonyms include ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, wolf down.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
VVhy a Hot Iron vvould have Hiſs'd if you had but Spit upon't. The Fool carry'd this Philoſophy avvay vvith him, and took an Occaſion aftervvard to Spit in his Porridge, to try if they'd Hiſs. They did not Hiſs it ſeems, and ſo he Guttled 'em up, and Scalt his Chops.
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