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Meaning of guttlesome | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Greedily eating and gorging oneself; gluttonous.

British, dialectal

Examples

“'What one of those guttlesome parsons who came every year to our dinners?' A momentary sadness passed over the company; on my mind the impression lingered; the talking, eating, evangelical parson, always going out to dinners, was dead.”
“Since when I've cleared the table to feed these guttlesome swans—on the best cake, too, which is simply immoral.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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