English

Verb

guttle ‎(third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)

1. To put into the gut; to eat voraciously; to swallow greedily; to gorge, gormandize.
   • c. 1692, Dryden Translations From Persius, The Sixth Satire of Pursius:

     His jolly brother, opposite in sense, / Laughs at his thrift; and lavish of expence / Quaffs, crams, and guttles, in his own defence.

   • 1890s, Poverty Knock:

     I know I can guttle, when I hear my shuttle, go poverty, poverty knock.

2. To swallow.
   • 1692 Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) Fables Of Aesop And Other Eminent Mythologists:

     The fool spit in his porridge, to try if they'd hiss : they did not hiss, and so he guttled them up, and scalded his chops

3. (Britain, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound
4. (Britain, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate

Derived terms

• guttler - a greedy eater

Translations

See also

• devour
• gorge
• gobble
• gulp

References

• A Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson (W Strahan ‧London, 15 April 1755)