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guttle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡʌtl̩/Part of speech verbSorted eglttuStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. eat greedily

Word origin

The verb is possibly derived from gut (“belly”) + -le (frequentative suffix), perhaps influenced by guzzle (“to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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?

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