guttle

noun /ˈɡʌtl̩/

1. An act of swallowing voraciously.

   archaic

   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!

2. One who eats voraciously; a glutton.

   archaic

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

3. Something which is eaten voraciously.

   archaic, obsolete, rare

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

Where it comes from

The verb is possibly derived from gut (“belly”) + -le (frequentative suffix), perhaps influenced by guzzle (“to drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto”). The noun is derived from the verb.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry guttle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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