GUTTLE

devour, guttle, raven, pig

(verb) eat greedily; “he devoured three sandwiches”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

guttle (third-person singular simple present guttles, present participle guttling, simple past and past participle guttled)

(archaic, ambitransitive) To eat voraciously; to swallow greedily.

Synonyms: gorge, gobble, gormandize, wolf down

To swallow.

(UK, dialectal, Northern England) To make a bubbling sound.

(UK, dialectal, Scotland) To remove the guts from; eviscerate.

Source: Wiktionary


Gut"tle, v. t. & i. Etym: [From GUT, n.]

Definition: To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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