Guttle

Quick meaning: Guttle is a verb meaning (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge.
2. An act of swallowing voraciously.
3. One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
4. (transitive, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
5. (intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.
6. (obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.

Example Sentences

[I]t doesn't much matter to me so long as I can have a slice of cake before Mieka guttles it all.

O depth of guile! / He blindly guzzles and guttles, // While—who is it dresses the food and pours / The liquor?

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.

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?

Word Forms

• guttles
• guttling
• guttled

Synonyms for guttle

Depending on context, synonyms include ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, eat, have, fret.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include devour, gulp, pig, raven, gobble, glop.

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