guttle UK /ˈɡʌtl̩/US /ˈɡʌt(ə)l/noun 3verb 4forms 3 noun3 •(dialect, UK) An act of swallowing voraciously.You don't know what it is to want rum, you don't: it gets to that p'int that you would kill a 'ole ship's company for just one guttle of it. — 1884 •(dialect, UK) One who eats voraciously; a glutton.[P]lague tak the greedy guttles, I wish they wud gie ae meal, out o' the five, to their head. — 1839 •(no longer used, rare) Something which is eaten voraciously.And can you pass by money fixed in mud, / Nor svvallovv vvith your guttle mercurial spittle? — 1784 verb4 •(Scotland) To remove the guts or entrails from (a person or an animal); to disembowel, to eviscerate, to gut. •(UK, Northern-England) To make a bubbling sound; to gurgle. •(dialect, no longer used) Often followed by down or up: to swallow (something) greedily; to gobble, to guzzle.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? — 1848 •(dialect, no longer used) To eat voraciously; to gorge.Time vvas, e'er Temperance had fled the realm; / E're Luxury sat guttling at the helm / From meal to meal, vvithout one moment's space […] — 1765 formsguttled · guttling · guttles
