† guttlen.
Obsolete. rare.
What one consumes gluttonously.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > food able to be guzzled
guttable1735
guttle1784
1784–9 M. Madan tr. Persius Sat. (1795) 141 Nor swallow with your guttle mercurial spittle.
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guttlev.
/ˈɡʌt(ə)l/ 1. intransitive. To eat voraciously; to gormandize.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (intransitive)] > be gluttonous
gourmanda1450
gormandize1548
belly-cheer1549
gurmander1570
overfeed1589
overeat1590
glutton1602
cram1609
gutc1616
pamper1620
guttle1654
gluttonize1656
engorge1667
stuff1728
guddle1825
to make a pig of oneself1873
guts1903
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. iii. 42 Sancho durst not gormandize, and guttle and guzzle too..under his Master's nose.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 24 Or swill and guttle every day With Nectar and Ambrosia.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 178 Such Praise inspires with a diviner Lust Your Friends, who guttle with a greater Gust.
1764 C. Churchill Times 6 Luxury sat guttling at the helm From meal to meal.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 190 [A] stone trough, whence the swine us'd to guttle.
1893 H. Vizetelly Glances Back I. xv. 300 A position which he utilised to guttle and guzzle in good company.
2. transitive. To devour or swallow greedily. Also with up, down.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > eat voraciously
forswallowOE
gulch?c1225
afretea1350
moucha1350
glop1362
gloup1362
forglut1393
worrya1400
globbec1400
forsling1481
slonk1481
franch1519
gull1530
to eat up1535
to swallow up1535
engorge1541
gulp1542
ramp1542
slosh1548
raven1557
slop1575
yolp1579
devour1586
to throw oneself on1592
paunch1599
tire1599
glut1600
batten1604
frample1606
gobbet1607
to make a (also one's) meal on (also upon)a1616
to make a (also one's) meal of1622
gorge1631
demolish1639
gourmanda1657
guttle1685
to gawp up1728
nyam1790
gamp1805
slummock1808
annihilate1815
gollop1823
punish1825
engulf1829
hog1836
scoff1846
brosier1850
to pack away1855
wolf1861
locust1868
wallop1892
guts1934
murder1935
woof1943
pelicana1953
pig1979
1685 H. More Cursory Refl. 9 He..was not edified by the reading, or rather gutling up so many Books as he has hastily read.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccccxxxviii. 415 He Guttled 'em up, and Scalt his Chops.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 138 I constantly regarding her Advice, Have safely guttled whatsoe'er is nice.
1767 T. Bridges Homer Travestie (ed. 2) II. viii. 68 To..guttle down six pound of turtle.
1827 Mirror II. 87/1 The gross appetite of the Iroquois and Tonopinambos, who guttle down their enemies out of absolute spite.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Crit. Rev. in Wks. (1886) XXIII. 207 Cleopatra's page guttling the figs in the basket which had brought the asp.
1853 F. Hall in Ledlie's Misc. II. 168 Guttling their beef and guzzling their beer.
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