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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