Meaning of guttle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of swallowing voraciously.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
2. One who eats voraciously; a glutton.
   UK, archaic, dialectal
3. Something which is eaten voraciously.
   UK, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, rare

Examples

“The top of the great stained glass windows at each end⟳ of the hall, are cut⟳ off to accommodate a new flat plaster roof;—the old Gothic one, with its rich groining and carved work⟳, could not be renewed but at the expense of at least two guttles!”

“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.”

“[P]lague tak the greedy guttles, I wish⟳ they wud gie ae meal, out o' the five, to their head.”

“Our doctor used to call⟳ me a ravenous eater; my mamma remarked I was blessed with an excellent appetite; cook⟳ said I was ‘a rare good one for vittals;’ and James, my own⟳ brother, whom I loved almost as much as stewed beef, invariably called me a ‘guttles.’ This unkind nickname pained me. It was vulgar, and more un-Christianly because it was so cuttingly true.”

“And can you paſs by money fixed in mud, / Nor ſvvallovv vvith your guttle mercurial ſpittle?”

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