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▪ I. † guttle, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. guttle v.]
What one consumes gluttonously.
1784–9M. Madan Persius (1795) 141 Nor swallow with your guttle mercurial spittle.
▪ II. guttle, v.|ˈgʌt(ə)l|
[? f. gut n., after guzzle.]
1. intr. To eat voraciously; to gormandize.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes Don Quix. ii. iii. 42 Sancho durst not gormandize, and guttle and guzzle too..under his Master's nose. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 24 Or swill and guttle every day With Nectar and Ambrosia. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 178 Such Praise inspires with a diviner Lust Your Friends, who guttle with a greater Gust. 1764Churchill Times Poems 1769 II. 258 Luxury sat guttling at the helm From meal to meal. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 [A] stone trough, whence the swine us'd to guttle. 1893Vizetelly Glances Back I. xv. 300 A position which he utilised to guttle and guzzle in good company.
2. trans. To devour or swallow greedily. Also with up, down.
1685[H. More] Reflect. on Baxter 9 He..was not edified by the reading, or rather gutling up so many Books as he has hastily read. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccccxxxviii. 415 He Guttled 'em up, and Scalt his Chops. 1739‘R. Bull’ tr. Dedekindus' Grobianus 138, I constantly regarding her Advice, Have safely guttled whatsoe'er is nice. 1764T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 118 To..guttle down six pound of turtle. 1827Mirror II. 87/1 The gross appetite of the Iroquois and Tonopinambos, who guttle down their enemies out of absolute spite. 1844Thackeray Crit. Rev. Wks. 1886 XXIII. 207 Cleopatra's page guttling the figs in the basket which had brought the asp. 1853F. Hall in Ledlie's Misc. II. 168 Guttling their beef and guzzling their beer. |