guttle
/ˈɡʌt(ə)l/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.
British usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
verb
To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut.
British usage; Archaic; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Are you, who are setting up to be a man of the world and a philosopher, to tell me that the aim of life is to guttle three courses and dine off silver?"
- "You married the boy's mother to craze and kill her, and guttle her property. You waited for the boy to come of age to swallow what was settled on him."
- "O depth of guile! / He blindly guzzles and guttles, // While—who is it dresses the food and pours / The liquor?"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡʌt(ə)l/
- British English: /ˈɡʌtl̩/