guttle
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Is guttle a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.Examples: "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."Synonyms: ingurgitate, scarf, scoff, wolf down, eat, have, fretUKarchaicdialectaltransitive
2. (intransitive) To eat voraciously; to gorge.Examples: "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."; "Time vvas, e'er Temperance had fled the realm; / E're Luxury ſat guttling at the helm / From meal to meal, vvithout one moment's ſpace […]"; "In a vvord, an Engliſhman, after guttling on pudding and beef, vvell diluted vvith ſtrong beer, talks avvay, of all other nations, as if they had not the ſame creator."Synonyms: gormandizeUKarchaicdialectalintransitive
noun (English)
1. (UK, dialectal)Examples: "The top of the great stained glass windows at each end of the hall, are cut off to accommodate a new flat plaster roof;—the old Gothic one, with its rich groining and carved work, could not be renewed but at the expense of at least two guttles!"; "You don't know what it is to want rum, you don't: it gets to that p'int that you would kill a 'ole ship's company for just one guttle of it."UKarchaicdialectal
2. (UK, dialectal)Examples: "[P]lague tak the greedy guttles, I wish they wud gie ae meal, out o' the five, to their head."; "Our doctor used to call me a ravenous eater; my mamma remarked I was blessed with an excellent appetite; cook said I was ‘a rare good one for vittals;’ and James, my own brother, whom I loved almost as much as stewed beef, invariably called me a ‘guttles.’ This unkind nickname pained me. It was vulgar, and more un-Christianly because it was so cuttingly true."Synonyms: gorger, gourmandizer, guttler, belly-god, buzgut, cormorant, epicure, gannetUKarchaicdialectal
3. (obsolete, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.Examples: "And can you paſs by money fixed in mud, / Nor ſvvallovv vvith your guttle mercurial ſpittle?"UKarchaicdialectalobsoleterare
verb (English)
1. (transitive, Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.ScotlandUKarchaicdialectaltransitive
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle.Northern-EnglandUKarchaicdialectalintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary