guttle

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌtl̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡʌt(ə)l/, [-ɾ(ə)l] Rhymes: -ʌtəl Hyphenation: gut‧tle === Etymology 1 === The verb is possibly derived from gut (“belly”) +‎ -le (frequentative suffix), perhaps influenced by guzzle (“to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto”). The noun is derived from the verb. ==== Verb ==== guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled) (archaic or UK, dialectal) (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle. Synonyms: ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, wolf down; see also Thesaurus:eat (intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge. Synonym: gormandize ===== Derived terms ===== guttler guttlesome ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== guttle (plural guttles) (UK, dialectal) An act of swallowing voraciously. One who eats voraciously; a glutton. Synonyms: gorger, gourmandizer, guttler; see also Thesaurus:glutton (obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Scots guttle, from gut (“to eviscerate”) + -le (frequentative suffix). ==== Verb ==== guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled) (transitive, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Origin unknown; possibly imitative of water bubbling or gurgling. ==== Verb ==== guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled) (intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle. ===== Translations ===== === Notes === === References === === Further reading === gluttony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “To GU′TTLE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1. Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “GUTTLE, v. and sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 769, column 2.