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Gluttony was never so cute!
guttle (GUT-l) verb tr., intr.
To eat voraciously; to devour greedily.
[From gut, on the pattern of guzzle, from Middle English gut, from plural guttes (entrails), from Old English guttas.]
"Wednesday was early closing day in Umtali, a relief for both of us, and
Mr. Gordon was not obliged to linger at the truckshop where he would read
the notices posted on the board over the cash register or inspect the
polish on his shoes or crack his lumpy knuckles while he waited for me
to guttle my ice cream."
George Makana Clark, A is For Ancestors, Transition (Durham, N. Carolina),
2000.
"Confess my pipings, dancings, posings served
A purpose: guttlings, guzzlings, had their use!"
Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology, 1875.
To eat voraciously; to devour greedily.
[From gut, on the pattern of guzzle, from Middle English gut, from plural guttes (entrails), from Old English guttas.]
"Wednesday was early closing day in Umtali, a relief for both of us, and
Mr. Gordon was not obliged to linger at the truckshop where he would read
the notices posted on the board over the cash register or inspect the
polish on his shoes or crack his lumpy knuckles while he waited for me
to guttle my ice cream."
George Makana Clark, A is For Ancestors, Transition (Durham, N. Carolina),
2000.
"Confess my pipings, dancings, posings served
A purpose: guttlings, guzzlings, had their use!"
Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology, 1875.
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